You didn't have to pay to cleanup a site before using it, because the expectation was that you paid while running your business and the site would be cleaned before you wanted to utilize it.
But now the "Superfund" has been underfunded for like 20 years. Biden's IRA set up a new tax for ten years but, not sure how well that's going.
We literally had the system set up well and working fine, but it cost companies a few dollars so it had to go when the "Greed is good" folks came along.