Republican deregulation of corporations

Wow, that is ironic. So do you live in Arkansas too? 1) If you want, I can use other companies, like I said before your most recent post "For example, Koch Industries, has been a constant offender, and have been directly linked to multiple deaths." That was just one example. 2) Because if you would recall in my last post, all of the deaths were related to Koch Industries lack of mind for the welfare of the American people. You said that the truck could have caused the crack, yet that same pipeline was reported having a history of corrosion problems since it was installed, so the truck stalling would have nothing to do with the pipeline leaking butane, because the gas would already have to be leaking for a while for the gas to ignite. Like I said with the lung cancers, the people who got the rare cancers, were non smokers, and non alcoholic drinkers. Also what is the probability of 11 people on 1 road with 15 houses to all die from rare lung cancers? 3) The corporations do it because they know that if they give money to the politicians, they will help the corporation. It happens all the time. I blame the corporations, because they are heartless, souless entities that are only there to maximize profit. 1) The definition that I am using is Republican- a member of the Republican Party of the United Stated(or GOP). So I am not calling all Americans murderers. 2) I never said that Corporations are "EVIL", or anything, but they are heartless, souless entities that are only there to maximize profit. They are legally mandated to do that. They don't care for their workers or American citizens. They only care about making money for their shareholders. I like corporations in the sense that they employ massive amounts of people and mass produce items to reduce to cost of the item. What I don't like about corporations is that they don't care about their workers, and they will do anything to make money. When the Government(mainly the Republicans) introduces and passes deregulations on corporations, it effects the American people. As I said in my last post with all of the disasters that Koch Industries caused, was due to Republican deregulations. The EPA is majorly understaffed, and getting smaller due to the Republican opposition of the regulations that the EPA enforces, and how they want to help their corporation buddies to maximize profit. 3) Nothing good ever can be if it comes from the death of another fellow human being, and I am surprised that anyone would say that. As I said corporations are just there to maximize profits, which is exactly what Koch Industries does. That is exactly what deregulation causes. Corporation using cheaper material which can cause damage. If not lead paint, then it would be e Coli in meat, which both harms Americans last time I checked. Deregulation is and has always been bad. The examples that I used with Koch Industries is just one out of many many corporations. Republican have proposed and passed bills that includes legislation limiting the regulatory authority of the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), by prohibiting it from regulating carbon emissions from power plants, votes to defund enforcement of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and efforts to target federal agencies such as the Department of Interior and the Department of Energy. If you want me to include more Corporation running a muck due to the lack of regulation, then alright: Pelican Refining LLC has to pay $12 million for problems at its Lake Charles refinery,in southwestern Louisiana, including $2 million for air pollution monitoring and other environmental projects in the state. According to a plea agreement reached in federal court. A judge must approve the agreement. Federal authorities said they opened an investigation after state inspectors in 2006 discovered illegal releases of hydrogen sulfide(hydrogen sulfide can poison several different systems in the body, although the nervous system is most affected), improperly repaired or bypassed pollution monitoring and control equipment and oil stored in unrepaired tanks. Transocean made, Deepwater Horizon(then owned by BP) oil rig explosion on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico. It is another story of careless, reckless deregulation and corruption under the Bush administration which led to loss of life(11 dead), destruction of wildlife and the environment, loss of income to coastal regions, and the largest offshore oil spill in the US history(4.9 million barrels). The full impact of the oil spill is still unknown, but the environmental and economic fallout from the massive spill is mounting quickly. With all of the regulations that they don't have to follow, the total bonus for CEO Steve Newman was over $370,000. Isn't that odd that the CEO of the company that caused the largest offshore oil spill in US history, gets 6 digit bonus that same year, and it was after the events of the Deepwater Horizon. That proves that that corporation is just to make money, at any expense. It turns out that thousands of offshore rigs are barely regulated, a result of Dick Cheney's private energy meetings and interference with the Department of Minerals Management Services, which regulates the off shore drilling. The MMS is also responsible for collecting billions in royalties from the oil companies and is the same agency that was investigated and found to be doing cocaine and having sex with oil executives(not being sarcastic or joking). In 2006, regulators found, a blowout preventer failed, in part because of maintenance issues. That was exactly what caused the BP oil spill. The rigs that Transocean owned in the Gulf of Mexico from 2005-07 was about 30% of the total rigs, and from 2008-10 it went up to 42% of the total Gulf of Mexico rigs. The total Transocean incidents from 2005-07 was 33% of the total world incident (13 of the 39 deep-water drilling incidents). From 2008-10, the total Transocean incidents jumped to 73% of the total world incidents(24 of the 33 incidents). In 2006, Transocean's Discoverer Enterprise was drilling for BP in over 6,000 feet of water when a gauge suggested a leak from the blowout preventer. It took nearly an hour for a robot submarine to reach the valve and determine that it was leaking drilling fluid. The robot tried to shut down the well, but didn't have enough hydraulic fluid to add to the valve. A second robot shut down the well about five hours after the problem arose. Investigators estimated 54 barrels of fluid spilled into the Gulf. BP's Texas City Refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers and injuring more than 170 others. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration slapped BP with a then-record fine for hundreds of safety violations. BP was charged with criminal violations of federal environmental laws,and subsequently imposed an even larger fine after claiming that BP had failed to implement safety improvements following the disaster. What about the Tesoro Corp.'s plant in Washington state that killed five employees in an explosion? What about McWane Inc., a pipe manufacturer, convicted of covering up details of a worker's death at a New Jersey plant, was sued over an accidental death of another employee killed at the same foundry? The man died at McWane's Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. when a 700-pound pipe rolled onto his chest. The pipe rolled from an elevated platform known as a test deck when a safety device failed. What about the 6 victims at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Connecticut? What about 11 oil platform workers who are presumed dead following an explosion of the Transocean Ltd. rig in the Gulf of Mexico What about 1 worker killed, four others hospitalized on a Transocean gas drilling rig in Galveston Bay, Texas? The AFL-CIO, reported that 5,000, workers will die on the job this year(14 per day), you cannot tell me that most of these aren't because of lack of regulations. Sources in the comments.