Superfund has been a joke for a while. Originally, the cost of covering cleanups where the offending party could not pay was covered via taxes on chemical/petr

Superfund has been a joke for a while. Originally, the cost of covering cleanups where the offending party could not pay was covered via taxes on chemical/petroleum products. But since 1995 it's funded by normal taxpayers. This has also had a huge impact on the ability to actually clean anything up.