Yes, however a weird side effect of the environmental laws in the US (and California in particular) is that you can use the state to incur so much cost to the b

Yes, however a weird side effect of the environmental laws in the US (and California in particular) is that you can use the state to incur so much cost to the builder to show that it would be clean, creates a huge sunk cost you have to pay back before your manufacturing plant is making any money. It doesn't make a lot of sense, and sadly there is no equivalent of "recovering court costs" from the people who exploited the law to shut you down.