Originally Posted by SideStickMonkey

That's my point. It wasn't done out of the kindness of their hearts. Governmental regulations forced them.

It cuts into their profits to do things cleaner and safer for everyone around them. No one wants to build a new refinery because it effects their bottom line. When profit is the only goal, everything else suffers.

Greed is only doing things for profit despite the consequences. We did that for a while. The Cayuga River in Cleveland literally caught on fire.