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A comment on Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land. Parent comment

Re:Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up ... by mrguyorama on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:08PM (#31123459)
What a shame that companies are forced to pay for the poisons they produced while making profits off those same poisons.

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses of course.

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Re:Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up ... by throwaway0a5e on Friday April 22, 2022 @05:40PM (#31128533)
FFS are you serious? These companies were following the law as it was written when they were doing these things.

How would you like it if you renovated a kitchen or added a deck and then 30yr later got sued because it wasn't adherent to the future code you didn't even know would exist?

You just can't run a society with retroactive liability like that.

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