“Tesla repeatedly asked me to lie to the government so that they could operate without paying for proper environmental controls,” a whistleblower reportedly wrote to the EPA.
regulators to Tesla that allege the MAGA billionaire’s electric carmaker dumped toxic pollutants near Austin, Texas —including untreated wastewater into the city’s sewer.also obtained a whistleblower memo sent this year to the Environmental Protection Agency by an environmental-compliance staffer at Tesla ’s Austin plant who wrote, “ Tesla repeatedly asked me to lie to the government so that they could operate without paying for proper environmental controls.
Earlier this year, Tesla was notified by local officials that it violated its municipal permit when it dumped more than 9,000 gallons of wastewater that was not correctly treated for pH, the’s requests for comment. Tesla did not immediately reply to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.Musk’s space technology company, SpaceX, was also recently fined by federal regulators for dumping 262,000 gallons of wastewater on Texas wetlands without a permit, something SpaceX has denied.
pushed employees to move fast, creating a management culture seemingly indifferent to the issues that were raised.to lead a commission, the new Department of Government Efficiency , that will proposed slashing as much as $2 trillion in government spending.Ramaswamy suggested they want to “delete” entire government agencies, which could vastly curtail, or practically eliminate, the oversight of certain industries, depending on the extent of the cuts.
The door wasn’t closing and was leaking toxins into the air, pushing the floor temperature for factory workers up to 100 degrees. Tesla reduced the amount of fuel going into the furnace and temporarily closed the door, not running it at “actual operating conditions” and securing a passing grade in the process. The problem, they alleged, wasn’t fixed until months later.
Outside Texas, where Tesla has been headquartered since 2021, the carmaker’s Fremont, California, factory violated its air-pollution permits 112 time in the past five years, leading regulators to claim the company has continuously failed to fix equipment to reduce the release of toxic chemicals, the
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