Further insulation from accountability. Corporations are rolling back the system of environmental regulations at the federal and state levels. A tidal wave of regulatory reform is sweeping through every legislative body in the nation. All of these alternative proposals have a few common elements. They allow corporations to negotiate their own performance and pollution standards with governments.
Citizens can barely understand the present system of uniform standards.
The new system is much more complicated, so citizens are effectively be cut out of the oversight process. In many instances, citizen lawsuits are specifically prohibited by these new arrangements. Thus the corporations are further insulated from citizens. For a long time such policies seemed to make sense. Environmental justice will only be achieved when we have a semblance of economic justice.