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>Corporations have paid more than $57 billion in environmental, health and safety penalties since 2010 (from 2015)

I checked, and Koch Industries has paid over $700M in fines for environmental violations. Seems like the penalty is too light.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

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Possibly a case of it being cheaper to break the rules.

Hard to imagine it's anything else, but I'd be curious to read alternative suggestions.

Any fines paid will ultimately be passed back to the consumer through increased prices.

Maybe the funes should be replaced by firing and/or imprisonment of culpable management?

I really believe we're entering a new global Gilded Age, in which the concentration of wealth is yielding increasingly abject poverty and misery for the lower and middle classes. Corrupted government, environmental degradation, a resurgence of authoritarianism - these are all symptoms of the dominance of wealthy and the consequence popular disillusionment with social institutions.

It's high time for a revamped Progressive Era.

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