When there is human and environmental damage in other countries, how do USA companies measure up for care and compensation?

Nobody said US companies were all sweetness and light, so this is a total non sequitur. Megacorporations which flout safety regulations and act recklessly in their pursuit of the almighty dollar/yen/pound/euro are everywhere despised. Trying to get BP off the hook because it's a British company is also despicable. They fucked up, they can take their lumps, whether their headquarters is on the Thames or the Sea of Tranquility. This is so not a nationalist issue. I'm starting to think the Brits are just horribly insecure in their feelings about their own country, and any criticism -- even if it's not against Britain but against a company that used to have "British" in its name -- feeds the fires of their inferiority complex. How else to explain this thread?