system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Ghostbusters] How liable would the EPA and Walter Peck be for the explosion at the Ghostbusters headquarters?

Assume that they were storing hazardous materials in violation of EPA standards. They still were *storing* them; it wasn't until Peck ordered the containment field switched off, even in the face of the GBs' statements as to the danger of an uncontrolled shutdown, that the hazardous materials were catastrophically released into the environment. Surely Peck, at least as an individual, should carry some liability for the consequences of his actions.
gpt
**VERY**. Provided that the Ghostbuster can prove that the fecal material hitting the oscillating cooling device is Peck's fault.

The system the Ghostbusters had set up had no measurable leaks, even if it isn't stated, because Egon isn't the kind of scientist to stand next to radioactive materials.

The real question is who does the blame fall on? Is the blame mostly Peck's fault, with the EPA taking some of the blame because they empowered a raving lunatic? Or does the EPA remain blameless because a raving lunatic goes above and beyond what the EPA allows, deciding that he wants to do the equivalent of purposefully causing a nuclear meltdown?