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It is particularly endemic to Louisiana which has an insane amount of chemical factories due to proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. All
by MisterBastahrd 3y ago
It is particularly endemic to Louisiana which has an insane amount of chemical factories due to proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. All of them are getting tax breaks even though many have been here for 50 years and couldn't move if they wanted to.
- sitkack 3y agoAnd probably would owe more than they are worth if charged with cleaning up all the pollution they have caused.
- philistine 3y agoA while ago, research came out that showed that the California oil industry had not squirreled away enough money, and there were not enough profits in the future, to clean everything. https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cleanup-exceeds-industry-profits https://www.propublica.org/article/cost-of-california-oil-cl...