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Originally Posted by blueash
I agree with you. I am hopeful that whatever local, state or federal investigations are surely underway will inform us whether the owners/operators were aware of the regulations and ignored them or whether they were ignorant of the rules and perhaps even didn't know the nature of the material they had on hand.
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What difference does it make "whether the owners/operators were aware of the regulations and ignored them or whether they were ignorant of the rules and perhaps even didn't know the nature of the material they had on hand"? The responsibility for this disaster which killed 14, injured I have no idea how many, and destroyed a community lies with the owners/operators. The government has its regulatory agencies, yes, but we don't (yet) live in a police state. In China, for example, they can publicly execute plant owners who produced poisoned baby formula (in all likelihood because of the ever more common greed factor), but not here. I cannot imagine anyone in any way implying that the owners/operators are not responsible, no matter what their excuses will prove to be.