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by bryanlarsen
872 days ago
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First offences for both corporations and people are almost always very light compared to subsequent offences. As part of the settlement they would have signed something promising not to do it again. The disincentive is the realization that they won't get off so easy the next time. |
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> By the end of 2021 it had racked up 12 new violations, and over the course of 2022 it racked up another 28, barely breaking stride for a $275,000 federal settlement that similarly touted EPA’s “compliance monitoring” as having “returned [Tesla] to compliance.” Over the course of 2023, Tesla received a whopping 76 notices of violation of the Clean Air Act.
And now we are finding they are poisoning the groundwater with a litany of chemicals ranging from bad to extremely horrible (Benzene, Ethylbenzene, TCE, PCE, Arsenic, and 1,4 dioxane).