Comment by onlypassingthru

You can thank the fine people who figured it was cheaper/easier/faster to just dump the toxic waste out back (or offshore [0]) for many of these processes being outlawed. If I'm not mistaken, CA has the 2nd most Superfund sites in the US.[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_ocean_dumps_off_Southern...

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