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>Corporations have paid more than $57 billion in environmental, health and safety penalties since 2010 (from 2015) I checked, and Koch Industries has paid over
by grasshopperpurp 9y ago
>Corporations have paid more than $57 billion in environmental, health and safety penalties since 2010 (from 2015)
I checked, and Koch Industries has paid over $700M in fines for environmental violations. Seems like the penalty is too light.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/27/corporations-have-paid-more-than-57-billion-in-environmental-health-and-safety-penalties-since-2010/?utm_term=.2db09fd7336b https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
- didibus 9y agoPossibly a case of it being cheaper to break the rules.
- grasshopperpurp 9y agoHard to imagine it's anything else, but I'd be curious to read alternative suggestions.
- fian 9y agoAny fines paid will ultimately be passed back to the consumer through increased prices. Maybe the funes should be replaced by firing and/or imprisonment of culpable management?
- mr_overalls 9y agoI really believe we're entering a new global Gilded Age, in which the concentration of wealth is yielding increasingly abject poverty and misery for the lower and middle classes. Corrupted government, environmental degradation, a resurgence of authoritarianism - these are all symptoms of the dominance of wealthy and the consequence popular disillusionment with social institutions. It's high time for a revamped Progressive Era.