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  • I’ll bet most of these businesses are long gone. They were in operation before there was an EPA or regulations. The harmful effects of the materials they dealt with may have been unknown at the time. It sounds like there has been some progress with this idea though:

    The program languished for years because of a lack of funding but has been replenished after Congress included a “polluter pays” tax in the 2021 infrastructure law. The tax took effect in 2022 and is set to collect up to $23 billion over the next five years, said Rep. Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat who pushed for reinstatement of the tax in the 2021 law.