It's sophmoric to go "well, akshually, the law says..." when we're talking about corrupt bureaucrats with a history of enabling, covering up, and abetting in ra

It's sophmoric to go "well, akshually, the law says..." when we're talking about corrupt bureaucrats with a history of enabling, covering up, and abetting in rampant environmental disasters (eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory). Cool, you're at stage 2 of viewing the world, which is really just trying to use faux rationality to cognitively disassociate from the nonsense evil going on in the world. Stage 3 is letting decades of this nonsense erode this "academic" view and saying enough is enough. I don't care what bureaucratic legalese these assholes are guarding their motives with, it's all 100% down to money. Money is flowing here between corporations and government, and that's the ultimate incentive behind these decisions.