> minimal penalties for spills

BP et al paid “the largest environmental damage settlement in United States history – $20.8 billion – on April 4, 2016” [1].

The damage from oil spills can be clearly quantified and directly attributed. We don’t have that evidence of harms from such breaches.

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-...