That could have beend done years ago.
The effin' lawyers wanted to make sure they had clear lines of sight on the money.
More money goes into litigation and admin than cleanup.
Superfund is a superfund for lawyers.
If set up as industry suggested, a true fund that would have limited liability in it (the kind tommie daschle gave his goldmine pals in S. Dakota) the companies could have been free to clean up as quickly as possible.
But with plaintiff pig attorneys out to fabricate damages, everything is a tort, and every potential past owner a target defendant.
It matters not if they were just landlords, users of products they had no way of knowing were toxic, or if the substances in question were not known to be toxic until years and years after the fact. It is all fodder for the hungry attorneys.
Ed