More importantly it was the 1950s before the Clean Water Act. Where both entities involved existed under the framework of industry self-regulation that is being directly criticized here.
The issue isn’t a company or government is responsible: it is that the system of self regulation results in failures with significant collateral damage.
Regulation also binds government, believe it or not.
More importantly it was the 1950s before the Clean Water Act. Where both entities involved existed under the framework of industry self-regulation that is being directly criticized here.
The issue isn’t a company or government is responsible: it is that the system of self regulation results in failures with significant collateral damage.
Regulation also binds government, believe it or not.
Sure it does, but you were directly trying to blame the company, and not the government that screwed it up. Stop shifting goalposts.
I established they were held legally liable, which they were, in response to a comment that stated the government was the one who fucked up.
Ain’t no zero-sum binary brained scenario.