If a CEO puts environmental protection ahead of maximizing profits, shareholders can sue. Corporations hire dozens of experts to prove to their employees and the community that the best methods are the profit-making methods. But the purpose was not to serve these interests, but to combat hostile takeovers. Since the realization that they could be used for such salutory purposes, they are being repealed. Corporations are dictatorships.
All orders go from the top down.
No employee has any legal standing or role in decision-making. The top officials have no accountability to employees, consumers, or communities, and even the stockholders are losing ground. Vicious competition can be created as everyone scrambles up the ladder of success. Kafoury learned what it does from his 15 years working to get the Trojan nuclear power plant shut down. Trojan was built on seismic cracks that had never been measured.