The EPA was only created because Congress was about to create an agency with the actual power and resources to be productive.
So republicans made the EPA and made it toothless
And politicians from both parties declared it was “good enough” like they did with Social Security.
It’s just another example of why incremental change isn’t effective. We get a little and a little at a time and with every increase more and more people think we don’t need anymore.
The U.S. Department of Justice has even gotten involved, forcing the company to pay a $1 million fine and spend another $110 million to fix equipment at its facilities in Calvert City and Louisiana.
if its just money, its just the cost of doing business. human cancer is the cost of doing business.
maybe those ceos and other executives should be risking real jailtime to head these companies for those giant salaries.
until then, causing human cancers and death are just the cost of doing business.
everything such as finger-wagging and miniscule fines?
Everything within their power, which is the point. The laws are toothless. Even 111 million isn’t a massive sum in the grand scheme of things