Law and border
Industries exploit lack of restrictions on sending waste to other states and poor surveillance
State pollution control boards are confounded. They cannot handle the growing illegal movement of hazardous waste across states.
Reason: there is no stringent regulation in the law books that addresses this issue, so the culprits manage to escape scot-free.
Unlike the movement of hazardous waste across international borders
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