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It's not allowed. These are old plumes and they stay around for a long time and are very expensive to clean up.
by 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 agoCool, let’s make the companies that caused it pay for it
- mrguyorama 3y agoThat'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 agoThat'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 agoSanta Clara county has the most superfund sites.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoThere 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 agoIt 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 agoIt's clearly not doing its job well, there are still constant ecological disasters that never get properly addressed.
- beambot 3y agoMany of those companies no longer exist...