Comment by leonidasrup

BP was fined billions for Deepwater Horizon because it affected US public.

Most in US don't know that recycling of lead-acid batteries from ICE vehicles is outsourced to Africa.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/18/world/africa/...

https://www.sustainable-recycling.org/reports/urgent-strateg...

"Although efforts to enforce regulations in the United States have ramped up and cleanup is underway at some sites, many lead-acid batteries from the United States are exported to the Global South, where companies continue to cause harmful public health disasters, and US automotive companies subsequently purchase the recycled lead."

https://blog.ucs.org/jessica-dunn/how-recycling-is-done-matt...