to teach them the lessons. "Our" government goes to the other end of the scale and rewards their bad behavior.

destruction they leave in their paths. Until we punish them so hard that it hurts, every time they destroy people's lives and the environment, they won't learn to be better citizens of our nation.

jail time. Louisiana is a state where laws to stop companies from damaging the environment have been viewed as evil by state leaders and, unfortunately, by the population at large.

... and are now either gone, or riddled with debt.

between salt mining & oil.

family owned company of several generations with other business interests.

http://www.texasbrine.com/

http://www.unitedsalt.com/site/html/about.htm

so it does not matter because God will be back to clean it all up before He turns it over to them. They have forgotten that the same teachings that talk about end times also talks about the consequences of sin.

Full fledged selfish until Jesus come back!

Of course, they didn't read about this:

The Sheep and the Goats

The Sheep and the Goats or "The Judgment of the Nations" is a discourse of Jesus recorded in the New Testament. It is sometimes characterized as a parable, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other characters.

The common Futurist explanation of the discourse is that it tells of the Last Judgment, and the division of all the world's people into the blessed, on the Right Hand of God, who are welcomed by the Father to inherit the Kingdom and eternal life, and the cursed, who are cast into the eternal fire along with the Devil.

The division is entirely based on the acts of kindness and mercy done by people to their disadvantaged fellow people; Jesus identifies such kindness with kindness towards himself.

The conservative religious, the Calvinists that the GOP prefer, are essentially Social Darwinists or Randian in their treatment of the world and its people:

An alternative interpretation, put forward by Calvinist theologian John Gill, is that the disadvantaged spoken of are actually fellow Christians. Instead of the division between blessed and cursed being based on good works, it is based on one's response to the people and message of Christ's Church.

In other words, your self-serving belief system saves you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats

might be bad for business and job creation

an absolute requirement for legitimate business. The problem is that polluters and business people that have no concerns about doing permanent damage to land, air and water have tended to get their way in some states due to corruption of those states leaders and ignorance of voters that keep those leaders in office.

The challenge is for businesses to realize that protecting the environment is not only the right thing to do, but actually improves the profitability of companies due to reduction in lawsuits and the absence of expensive environment recovery efforts to undo thoughtless and immoral polluting.

Was Jindal signing legislation to hold polluters responsible after he has acted as one of their biggest enablers over his political career.

This isn't a sinkhole in the normal sense-this is a disaster.

might find the same multi-millionaires and billionaires are interchangeably sitting on the board of directors of said company. Sometimes there is an even more incestuous link, where one is a parent company of the other, but the relationship is buried under corporate charters and other obfuscating paperwork.

I personally am not that interested because I come out of the mining industry and they all pretty much operate in the same circles, whether they are mining, oil, copper, salt, coal, or precious metals etc. I already know that and that they are poorly regulated.

You're a terrorist.

Should be made to live there. You broke it you bought it.. And pay $$$$ to the homeowners.

Where are all the lawyers? Is there ONE honest one left in this country? Sometimes I wonder.

and the companies involved did what was legal, they don't have much to base a lawsuit on. I wonder what Mike Papantonio's law firm, who is involved in environmental issues would have to say about it?

Piyish and scumbags like him have let oil, coal, mining and chemical companies turn their states into sewers and Petri dishes in the name of job creation. I would be surprised if they broke any laws at all.

I guess generations of Louisianans voting for Republicans to run their state have resulted in this.

whole nation would be up against because of a lack of regulation and environmental oversight.

"Gov. Bobby Jindal [on] Friday signed a slew of bills tightening regulations for underground cavern operators and written in response to a debris-filled sinkhole in the swamps of Assumption Parish." …

Jindal is a phony.