[quote=CONCHO][quote=bearishgurl]
How would deregulation address this or prevent it from happening in many more places all over the U.S.? . . . [/quote]
Deregulation won’t. But protection of private property will. If your business dumps poison on my property and causes me damage, I should be able to at a minimum sue you. If you do enough damage your corporate charter should be revoked with all assets liquidated and paid out to the victims and/or for cleanup, and potentially your managers or board members imprisoned. Strong courts, no limits on damages (see the recent documentary “Hot Coffee” for more on this topic), prison terms for offenders, a corporate “death penalty” to dissolve and distribute the capital of egregious offenders, and a good education system (to ensure competent juries) would all help towards this.
No system can totally protect you (including ours), but if you have a system that ensures offenders of property rights are punished, you can at least reduce the number of times things like this occur….[/quote]
CONCHO, the above was DomoArigato’s statement (not mine). Filing a lawsuit WAS mentioned in the video. HOWEVER, the +/- dozen affected neighbors would have to come up with a large retainer for a law firm to take on a case with a deep-pocketed defendant who no doubt has a *fleet* of attorneys already on retainer, who could bombard them with filings and other paperwork and delay it into oblivion and thus drive the plaintiffs into dropping it (when they ran out of $$, probably sooner and later). I think the video was made to bring attention to the problem to see if these owners could get sponsored by environmentally-minded agencies/individuals and/or law firms who could contribute to a legal fund and/or take the case on a contingency basis.
