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> EPA cracked down on that pretty hard in the US

This is sadly an ongoing battle that never fully settles, be it in the US or the other developed countries.

There will always be more money made by cutting ecological corners, and where there's money there's politics. Fracking, regular industrial waste chemical, agricultural waste, any new spot where regulation isn't set yet, gets relaxed or there's an opportunity to push the issue under the rug it's almost guaranteed to be abused.