Apparently you can do prison time for violating health/environmental regulations.

[Stay Up Be Easy]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...irm-fined-1-4-m-owner-sent-prison/2509632001/

A Madison Heights chemical plating firm shut down by state regulators three years ago has been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million and its owner sent to federal prison for illegally storing dangerous chemicals in leaky containers.

Sayers was also sentenced to serve a year in prison followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty earlier this year to a federal hazardous waste storage felony.

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I had it in my head you could get fined to death but not actual time.

And he was given at least a year so it's actual prison. I'd rather just fine him the million and a half and call it a day.

 

[Merv]

Not often enough.

 

[collige]

Good. People go to prison all the time for much less.

 

[dhlt25]

good thing the EPA is rolling back all regulations so we can all be free..

 

[djplaeskool]

Yeah. Certain violations are more serious felonies because they present a clear and immediate hazard to health or deal with substances that are federally controlled.
It still takes a while for things to worm their way through court, but it can result in people getting locked up.

 

[True Underdog]

At one of my old jobs dealing with environmental regs, I had to sign off on chemical and waste manifests and it was always daunting to know that if I fucked something up bad enough, I could be personally liable.

Nothing we dealt with was on the level of a large company so the chances of it happening were super low.

 

[Dead Man]

I'd rather we hold people personally responsible when they lead organisations and commit crimes rather than just fining the company.

 

[Stay Up Be Easy]

https://www.freep.com/story/news/lo...rews-cleanup-greenish-yellow-ooze/2729089001/

So the stuff is leaking onto freeways.

1. Why did neither the feds or the state secure the site when they took possession of the property to endure this doesn't happen.

2. The state declared this stuff to be safe a little too quickly for my taste. Especially in light of Michigan's recent (and distant) past when it comes to environmental health.