Cool, let’s make the companies that caused it pay for it

That's why we have the EPA Superfund program

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Superfund

It should be renamed "minifund" given how small the fund is today and how few sites they actually clean up

The reinstatement of the excise tax in 2022 may actually be harmful to its own environment. It's an import tax on crude oil, which will encourage the domestic oil industry leading to an importing of pollution.

It's clearly not doing its job well, there are still constant ecological disasters that never get properly addressed.

There are a lot of superfund sites, man. And it sucks that the FeddyGov is on the hook to cleanup the mess that big corps make.

Santa Clara county has the most superfund sites.

That's clearly socialism and making companies pay for damage they cause and their externalaties is oppressive regulation. We should instead reduce the EPA's power until they are a shell of an organization. How else are we going to get our burning rivers back?

Many of those companies no longer exist...