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On the one hand, I'm happy that something is being done about this, because it's clearly a problem (completely basing this assumption on this one article).

But I'm very annoyed that this needs to be done in the first place. There's a lot of annoying regulation in place that shouldn't have to be there, but I feel like some profit-driven dicks will always find a way to mess things up for everyone

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Environmental protection needs to be a default with criminal consequences for those that fail to take proper precautions to avoid disaster, beyond paying for the real and complete clean up costs. If this were the default we might finally be talking about the right way to deal with the cost of CO2 and methane released into the atmosphere and the true cost of doing so, which clean up of which is vastly higher than makes it economically viable.

The easy way is to create criminal laws for environmental damage for company leaders like we do for financial crimes.

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