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Critical Commentary
The chemical industry would need to more tightly controlled by a stronger legal framework in Germany.
The parliament should adopt laws that legally bind companies to fund remediation efforts in the area they operate in and of the natural resources they profit from.
Additionally, the local state agencies should take a lot more measurements and closely supervise if corporations operate within this legal framework.
NGOs like Transperency International partly fill this niche and call for more transparency of government-corporate interactions (lobbyism).