It's also just bad optics, unfortunately. A coal power plant kills people living nearby slowly over the course of decades, a battery fire might injure a few peo

It's also just bad optics, unfortunately. A coal power plant kills people living nearby slowly over the course of decades, a battery fire might injure a few people but it does so in a way that makes headlines. No one cares about boring lawsuits over a power plant being turned off next year anyway, and that is part of what makes these kinds of stories so frustrating!