The regulations frequently don't help, and because people have come to rely on them, even wind up harming the situation. That seems to be the case in this very

The regulations frequently don't help, and because people have come to rely on them, even wind up harming the situation. That seems to be the case in this very example. TFA kicks off with "News that the Environmental Protection Agency pressured the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to suppress a study showing PFAS chemicals to be even more dangerous than previously thought". Also look at the water problems in Flint, MI, where governmental empire building led to a lot of health problems. It's sometimes the government's own refusal to self-regulate that causes the problems. So it's wrong to believe that corporations are necessarily the culprits, and we can count on government to save us. Yes, we need some regulations, especially when we're talking about tragedy-of-the-commons destruction of public resources. But don't go into it with a naive idea of "corporations evil, the government will save us".