Union Carbide (now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical) decided to locate a new plant in a depressed area with high unemployment and chose a small town in West Virginia. It built a state-of-the-art plant that had the latest pollution control technology. It created 2,500 jobs.
Later, the company was attacked for polluting a previously "pristine" area. Had the plant been built in an industrial area, such as the coast near Houston, no one would have been likely to complain. Was the company socially irresponsible for building the plant in such an area?