> I genuinely don't know what they expect to happen when doing away with it and replacing it with nothing. A golden age of value transfer to shareholders, unen

> I genuinely don't know what they expect to happen when doing away with it and replacing it with nothing. A golden age of value transfer to shareholders, unencumbered by communist concepts like "environmental protection" and "workplace safety". Or at least that's what will happen for a while, until something happens, like some guy who's lost everything to his kid getting (and dying from) cancer - caused by drinking polluted water - realizing there's no real legal recourse anymore and deciding to take matters into his own hands. But that's a simple possibility to the c-suite, not a certainty, and even if it were a certainty, it's not known if it's scheduled in the next fiscal quarter. So dump the chemicals in the waterway and get back to work. Literally every concern can be pushed out into the unknown future, while every benefit can be quantified and added to the earnings call as a talking point. EDIT: You can downvote this all you want, but all of these agencies, rules, etc. are a part of a system meant to prevent and adjudicate issues that exist in society. If you remove that system, humans will come up with their own.