Tesla must fix air quality problems at its electric vehicle manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area after racking up more than 100 violations for allegedly releasing toxic emissions into the atmosphere over the last five years, an air quality board said Tuesday.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District planned to issue a written abatement order later this week after Tuesday’s announcement. Each of the 112 violations can emit hundreds of pounds of illegal air pollution, the board said.
The plant is in the city of Fremont, in the East Bay, and the agency’s independent hearing board pointed to the facility’s paint shop operations as a specific problem. The board has ordered Tesla to hire an independent consultant and develop a proposed implementation plan for approval, which it then must execute to stop the toxic emissions.
Why doesn’t the government just force a permanent shutdown until these problems are fixed? The government is allowing this to happen.
The EPA has been left completely toothless by SCOTUS.
Like they do with restaurants. You get a bad grade or something like this? Auto shutdown until problem is fixed. It’s a community health hazard.
Unfortunately, a lot of the times restaurants are allowed to continue to operate even with serious health code violations as long as they promise to fix them before the checkup visit. It’s rare that they get shut down on the spot.
Just look at what happened when they tried that during COVID. Elon is a loud idiot who’ll screech about how he’s being oppressed, and unfortunately still has a lot of equally loud idiots as followers who will gladly harass the underpaid government employees who actually have to enforce the shutdown on his behalf.