Now, let's mandate such filtration systems on plants that use or produce forever chemicals.
Polluters should pay for the bulk of this, not taxpayers.
this post was submitted on 01 May 2023
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To get out of paying cleanup they'll do what coal companies do - https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-west-virginia-coal-mining-alpha
Well, better not wait until operation stops, executives retire, and the company go bankrupt.
It's not very surprising that a mandate to eventually cleanup things isn't working. Gotta cleanup waste as they're produced.
Definitely there should be discharge standards for industrial point sources. There is a precedent for that. The harder problem is controlling nonpoint input from all of us as we clean off our makeup, toss our food wrappers, and wash our clothes (etc). The producers should be responsible for that clean up too.