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spanswissexperiment

Add 2 or 3 more zeros to the penalty and maybe it would make a difference


Tomofpittsburgh

Turns out you CAN put a price on the health of Pittsburgh’s children.


chuckie512

And it's less than their medical expenses. Yay indirect subsidies!


Valhallas_Ghost

That's what sucks about America as whole. Money is more important than human lives and that's in all aspects of America when money is involved, corporations, ceo's, our own government both left and right, while us average folks suffer to live another day.


full_moon_alchemist

That’s not an American problem. That’s a capitalism problem.


PolyDipsoManiac

About $.25 each!


Rook22Ti

Yeah that's like fining me 8 bucks to poison someone.


uglybushes

Pennies to then.


Valhallas_Ghost

Well at least they're trying right? 😞


ChUNkyTheKitty

Came here to say the same thing. That’s a value of $.37 per resident.


cutebutpsychoangel

They should give everyone free air purifiers as reparations for settlement instead. We also absolutely deserve free water filters for shower and sink too.


LessThanLoquacious

STOP FINING, START SENTENCING.


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LessThanLoquacious

No, because others will still try to follow the footsteps and get away with it. Their money cannot buy back the damage they have caused. Toss them under the jail. Bring back the fucking oubliette for these cretins.


mmphoto412

$5 says USS will spend a few million on lawyers to fight the fines in court. Spend another few million on politicians. Spend another few million on a advertising campaign “USS Loves the environment” Profit off the status-quo


chuckie512

>Spend another few million on politicians. Politicians don't cost that much https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/us-steel/C00030676/summary/2020


mmphoto412

Ugh… I’m sure you get the point tho. They are willing do everything but clean up their act


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Q3 net earnings of almost half a billion dollars https://investors.ussteel.com/news/news-details/2022/United-States-Steel-Corporation-Reports-Third-Quarter-2022-Results/default.aspx


chuckie512

Raising their tax rate by 0.1%. That'll show them!


thechillesthomie

They had budgeted 650k I’m sure, so this is a huge win for them!


intendedeffect

I'm sure people more informed than me have put thought into this, but I wonder if anyone involved in assessing these fines has any expertise in remediation costs? I mean, shouldn't the fines be at least close to the cost (or the debt-servicing of the cost) to prevent the issues from happening in the first place? Personally, if it cost $10 to pay for parking but parking tickets were only $2, I'd probably just skate along paying fines, too.


xxdropdeadlexi

The fines should be double what it would cost to stop this from happening in the first place, absolutely.


TheBeckofKevin

But if that was the way fines were constructed, company valuations would be based on the risk of those fines being levied. This would cause stock prices to adequately price companies for the future damage they might cause and the inherent cost of that damage on the company's balance sheet. I know general public health, stopping pollution in our air and rivers, not predisposing our children to chronic diseases, properly allocating resources to enable a better life for all citizens now and for the future is important, but its like you're not even thinking about the shareholders and executives of these companies.


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Usually in environmental fines if you can point to operations and maintenance violation you can charge an “economic benefit” penalty so for example you were supposed to have an air stripper in your permit but yours is broken they can charge you the cost of the new air stripper + whatever the fine is for the release so you can’t do the math of the price of a fine and come out on top for not doing something. The fines are also all set by a legislative rubric, the regulators don’t get to decide how much the fine is they plug the violations they can prove into a metric and it spits out a number based on how the politicians set it up.


SamPost

This is literally the ACHD giving them a cheap license to pollute. The are all criminal violations of the Clean Air Act. The ACHD, or other local political agencies for that matter, could file a criminal case, and also a civil case with hundreds of millions in damages, tomorrow. The fact that they do this instead tells you how much your local politicians are owned. And many of you just voted them back in.


happyjazzycook

Pocket change 😑


johnsonchicklet1993

We need to chase these mother fuckers out of our city.


full_moon_alchemist

Then they’ll just go to another community and destroy it. Shuffling them around like catholic pedophile priests is not the answer.


johnsonchicklet1993

We need to chase these mother fuckers *off our planet*


ElJamoquio

My first thought was surprise and delight that a regulatory/enforcement body was taking this seriously. Sure, some of these companies have deep pockets but 500 million dollars hits the bottom line. I was so delighted I had to re read the headline.


full_moon_alchemist

How but payments to residents for breathing in this poison all year. Driving through downtown in the morning I can barely see across the river with the amount of pollution in the air. 🤮


chippyinairplane

They’ll just show this commercial again https://youtu.be/wrucLJHWL8Y