ANOTHER reason we NEED agencies like EPA & OSHA

[Dot Com]

Texas too. No surprise there. My heart does go out to the victims of the regulation evaders however.
Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules before blast

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

 

[Oddball]

Right...All those bureaucrats, rules and regulations completely averted the disaster....Whew!

Oh, wait....

 

[kiwiman127]

Right...All those bureaucrats, rules and regulations completely averted the disaster....Whew!

Oh, wait....

Actually, it looks like West Fertilizer decided to self-regulate itself. This obviously did not work out well.

 

[rdean]

Republicans say the EPA is a job killer. But why stop there? No speed limits. No food inspectors. No bridge inspectors.

Anyone who eats uninspected food or wants to put their families into a car built without regulation and drive over uninspected bridges deserves what they get.

 

[Dot Com]

Right...All those bureaucrats, rules and regulations completely averted the disaster....Whew!

Oh, wait....

ummm..... the Texicans withheld their info from the proper agencies Fraudball. Response FAIL

 

[Oddball]

Yes, yes...Failure is success.

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

 

[idb]

The Market'll fix it.

 

[Dot Com]

Right...All those bureaucrats, rules and regulations completely averted the disaster....Whew!

Oh, wait....

Actually, it looks like West Fertilizer decided to self-regulate itself. This obviously did not work out well.

just like Greenspan (an acolyte of Ayn Rand) believed Wall St would regulate themselves

The Market'll fix it.

according to Randians, yes

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Texas too. No surprise there. My heart does go out to the victims of the regulation evaders however.
Texas fertilizer company didn't heed disclosure rules before blast

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fertilizer plant that exploded on Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Those are rules about national security, they have nothing to do with the EPA or OSHA.

Thread fail.

 

[Dot Com]

they STILL held their bookkeeping/accounting of mat'ls from the feds. IOW- law breakers.

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

The problem here folks is the penalties will be way affordable. Committing criminal malfeasance endangering public safety and killing 14 people, injuring dozens more, and adding non-reimbursable expenses to the lives of hundreds of neighbors, is likely cheaper than meeting the legal requirements for storing 13 times the legal amount of explosives on the premises.

Whoever posted that more inspectors won't fix these kinds of problems is exactly right. Government workers are not smart enough to identify ongoing criminal behavior, let alone stop criminal behavior. That has been proved time and again in coal mines and meat packing plant fiascos.

What typically happens in these cases is malefactors use government inspection sheets as evidence FOR THE DEFENSE at both civil and criminal trials.

All that can stop corporations from killing and maiming due to shortcutting public safety is blanket laws stating something very brief like, "Businesses shall not endanger public safety. Businesses that by whatever means damage private property not their own and/or kill and/or injure hired staff or members of the public shall be held accountable in both criminal and civil courts.... etc., etc." Followed by serious time for OFFICERS of the parent corporation upon conviction and serious financial penalties upon conviction.

As long as it is cheaper to pay fines, that is what businesses shall do.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

they STILL held their bookkeeping/accounting of mat'ls from the feds. IOW- law breakers.

Regulations are not laws.