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Why is still allowed to leach tce into groundwater

• daniel_reetz 3y ago
  It's not allowed. These are old plumes and they stay around for a long time and are very expensive to clean up.
  • whamlastxmas 3y ago
    Cool, let’s make the companies that caused it pay for it
    • mrguyorama 3y ago
      That's clearly socialism and making companies pay for damage they cause and their externalaties is oppressive regulation. We should instead reduce the EPA's power until they are a shell of an organization. How else are we going to get our burning rivers back?
    • zymhan 3y ago
      That's why we have the EPA Superfund program https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Superfund https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Superfund
      • Fatnino 3y ago
        Santa Clara county has the most superfund sites.
      • red-iron-pine 3y ago
        There are a lot of superfund sites, man. And it sucks that the FeddyGov is on the hook to cleanup the mess that big corps make.
      • acchow 3y ago
        It should be renamed "minifund" given how small the fund is today and how few sites they actually clean up The reinstatement of the excise tax in 2022 may actually be harmful to its own environment. It's an import tax on crude oil, which will encourage the domestic oil industry leading to an importing of pollution.
      • 93po 3y ago
        It's clearly not doing its job well, there are still constant ecological disasters that never get properly addressed.
    • beambot 3y ago
      Many of those companies no longer exist...
• athoun 3y ago
  It's not supposed to leach into the groundwater, but nobody is enforcing the companies that are handling these chemicals to ensure they don't get into the groundwater supply. Many of the worst contaminations in the area were caused by big tech companies such as HP who didn't realize their underground TCE tanks were leaking whoops. As of 2023 only two states have banned TCE (Minnesota and New York), and the federal government has yet to do anything to control it. It has and will continue to be used extensively in industrial application such as at electronic assembly lines, dry-cleaners, mechanics, air force bases, coffee decaffeination, textile industry, and the list goes on. The best you can do is live in a highly residential area which is far from the locations where any of these business could operate.