America has lost faith in the EPA, according to an exclusive Newsweek poll.
"I don't think the EPA has done any better than the rest of the federal government has," Karapin said.
"If the EPA had stepped in initially and not allowed an opportunity for Norfolk Southern to put forth an appropriate response, then it would have been considered government overreach and it would have been considered taking away freedoms," he added. What the polling bears out is that responsibility, in Americans' minds, rests firmly with the rail operator, Norfolk Southern. But this aligns with what the company"The responsible party, even by legal definition, is 100 percent the CEO and the organization of Norfolk Southern," Glass commented."Every practical and legal definition of responsible party is Norfolk Southern... so it's not appropriate to blame the EPA.
"Could the regulators have done more? I'm sure they could have. Could the companies have done more? I'm sure they could have," Karapin added. "The regulatory structure has to create an incentive structure for compliance," he said."And any regulatory structure that has an incentive for compliance rather than a penalty is, in my experience, more successful. If it's good business to be more compliant, then that's what people will do."
Karapin speculated that rather than a lack of regulations, the EPA had the tools at its disposal, but needed a political context in which it could exercise those tools—which was perhaps why it was not taking a harder line with the railroad.
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