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Hold up and get the facts strait before you talk morons:

The spill was tanks full of vinyl chloride which highly toxic to animals, humans AND the environment.

The EPA helped orchestrate the control burn of vinyl chloride, which created dioxin poisoning all around the area, which also contaminated nearby rivers, used by farmers for water irrigation. Already thousands of farms are now ruined and will be for the rest of your lifetime. Farm animals have died. The crops contaminated, now hazardous to health. Very unsafe to live in those areas, doing so an you risk severe cancers.

Corruption DOES matter. Corruption does have consequences. Doesn't matter if it's a corporate, or government agency, or both.

What they should have done is let the spill leak into the ground and contain it in a designated hazardous "no-go zone", NOT BURN IT. Burning it is 1,000x worse than the spill itself.