[clairity]

rather than arbitrary zoning rules and an implicit pass for such obvious and wanton pollution, those businesses should be regulated and heavily punished (too bad the supreme court made things like this harder not easier recently). that's a literal externality. it's the kind of thing where the corporate veil should be pierced mercilessly, and the executives and owners all held personally culpable.

then it wouldn't matter who lived next door.

[mint2]

Theoretically and on paper that would be a nice proposition. Unfortunately we are humans. That will not work