The costs of negotiating with polluters are likely to be the costs of filing a class-action lawsuit against polluters on behalf of victims. Why do you suppose there are more class-action lawsuits filed against polluters than there are negotiations between polluters and victims?

Law firms that file such lawsuits have a vested interest in assembling a large group of people to sue for damages.

-People who have suffered damages stand to gain compensation for those damages in class-action lawsuits.

-Deals between polluters and victims are harder to monitor and enforce than class-action lawsuits

Explanation:Class action lawsuits are lawsuits brought against an organisation or a person by a large number of persons who have suffered harm,hazard or losses as a result of the activities of that Organisation or that person. It can be as a result of pollution of the environment or other harmful Activities etc. Certain factors cause class action lawsuit to be more such as the following;

Deals between polluters and victims are very difficult to monitor or enforce than lawsuits.

Those who have suffered damage are likely to enjoy compensation with class action lawsuits than negotiation and some lawyers have special interest in such a case.

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