Other than that . Environmental alarmists tend to make wildly exaggerated claims based on pseudoscience. The notion that they may be doing so in this case is much more believable than the alternative notion that a long-established business has anything to gain by poisoning its employees, customers and neighbors. Comparing biblical political and soci-economic structures to modern ones is unacceptable. Classical liberalism is predicated on a level of freedom of action, of separation of the religious arm from the governmental arm and on a whole host of notions and ideas alien to the pre-18th century.
Classical liberalism posits the independance of the individual qua individual.
While this might be a worthy notion in modern western society, it is certainly not an idea compatible with pre-enlightenment practical philosophies, which emphasize mans place in a community et.al. 1Sam7 is unrelated to the issue of the right of government to regulate normative commercial behavior. In several recent posts, objections have been raised to government intervention in economic life on libertarian grounds. I am not sure that libertarian or even classical liberal thought is particularly consistent with the overall thrust of Torah. But that is a large general question.