When pollution is a by-product that impacts third parties, it is a a) government failure due to externalities.
Pollution is meant to be controlled by the government though various methods such as Pigouvian Tax.
When the government does not protect people from pollution, the effect of this would be that the government would have failed to protect from the negative externality of pollution.
In conclusion, when a pollution by-product that impacts third parties, this type of failure is called a government failure due to externalities.
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