3 miles from my house, a developer was permitted to build a 15 house subdivision less than 1/4 mile from a known long term (50+ year) landfill/dump. My understanding is they/the realtors were not even required to inform the prospective homebuyers they were downstream from said landfill.

Now, the town is shocked, SHOCKED to find there's PFAS in the water table tapped by the WELLS of these houses. And it's up to the small state's Senators to suck up to their patrons in Congress to get a few meager ass-covering funds to start "cleaning it up".

Meanwhile, the subdivision's residents are screwed, drinking PFAS and micro-plastic infused water - unless they have money to pay individually for water filtration - but the town gets to collect the property taxes and the developers got paid and are LONG gone.

What a country we've allowed to happen here.