Environment & Energy

PamW

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5. Really????

Sat Mar 3, 2012, 07:18 PM

Mar 2012

The State has the power to regulate any corporation that operates within it?????

Let's defuse this by considering automobile companies. Automobile companies operate in LOTS of States. So who gets to decide the fuel mileage standards and safety standards of cars?

Chrysler operates an assembly plant in St Louis. So does Missouri set the safety standards for Chrysler cars?

Chrysler operates many assembly plants in Michigan. So perhaps it's Michigan that sets safety standards for cars since Chrysler operates there.

Can you not see how that could lead to a multitude of conflicting laws?

So the Federal Government sets safety standards. They also set fuel mileage standards. That way the industry has a clear regulator.

NO - it is not true that just because a company operates within a state, that that state can regulate the operations / products of the company.

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