Which of these causes would have been least likely to be advanced by politicians of the progressive era?
a) the direct election of senators
b) securing voting rights for all races
c) limiting the powers and abuses of corporations
d) conservation of public lands and natural resources

c- companies fail to take environmental protection into account. i think

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.