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by nomel 1082 days ago
> Would be more just to seize them and auction them off for enough funds to do 1-5% cleanup

A good portion of the companies behind superfund sites, in the US no longer exist, or are the US government.

At this point, subsidized reverse osmosis systems would probably be cheaper than cleaning up the mess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites