[bretthoerner]

> Because they would then trade those like carbon offsets or find away to ignore them/workaround them for a market advantage.

Isn't that the point?

I'm not arguing (or not arguing) for this solution, but charging people the cost of cleanup and allowing them to "ignore them/workaround them for a market advantage" seems like an improvement on the status quo? Because the local government collecting the tax would now have funds to put toward the solution. This is classic internalizing of what were externalities.