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    Ein Entwässerungsbezirk in Texas hat bei einer Routineinspektion seinen Graben bewältigt. Sie fanden ein Rohr, das sie nicht kannten und das schwarze Flüssigkeit aus Teslas 1-Milliarde-Dollar-Lithiumraffinerie ableitete

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    2. XilentSea on

      It’s a frustrating reality to watch a small percentage of the population (elite & rich) generate a massive portion of global emissions.

    3. williamgman on

      Texas will give them the equivalent of a parking ticket in fines. This is Texas we’re talking about.

    4. ggibby on

      Local officials: „We found arsenic and hexavalent chromium coming out of your factory into a public ditch via an undisclosed pipe.“

      Tesla: „We have a permit for other stuff, and since those toxins are not listed, they are allowed.“

      State of Texas: „We agree with Tesla.“

    5. Ganrokh on

      > Tesla’s „acid-free clean process“ lithium refinery has been quietly discharging 231,000 gallons of black wastewater per day into a Texas ditch — and the people who own that ditch found out by walking it, not from Tesla or state regulators.

      That seems like an insane daily amount to keep hidden.

    6. thingamasomething on

      Just plug that pipe, should fix it. Let it back up inside that den of p*dophiles

    7. MakeoutPoint on

      Oh man, someone’s getting fired*

      *Reassigned from scapegoat to some other position and replaced with the next scapegoat for the next scandal

    8. ExigentCalm on

      Elon is using Texas as a “consequence free zone.” The state officials are either too corrupt or too inept to do anything and they simply allow him to do whatever he wants. His toddler son literally said on camera “we just do whatever we want.”

      SpaceX is a menace. The Tesla factories are a menace. But until the pollution starts to kill west Texas billionaires, Gov Abbott isn’t doing a gd thing.

    9. Rad_Dad6969 on

      About 200 miles north is their big space ex factory. Its just upriver from Austin, which gets most of its drinking water from that river.

    10. FanDry5374 on

      One of the many ways corporations and the rich steal „legally“ from everyone else. If they are fined at all it will be a miniscule fraction of their profit and what it will cost everyone else to clean up or suffer from. And with a few spine transplants and some will this could all go away, which is the most frustrating thing of all, how EASY this is to fix.

    11. space_wiener on

      New unknown drainage pipe on my property? It’s getting capped immediately.

    13. DryBattle on

      I am sure that they immediately got down on their knees and apologized to Musk.

    14. Kinda_Quixotic on

      This is lost on most Texans, but “Don’t mess with Texas” started as an anti-littering campaign because they were trashing their own state at an unbelievable rate.

      … and they still are.

    15. Oktober on

      My solution: seal the pipe, make some popcorn, wait for the black liquid to overflow back into the factory.

    16. itwillmakesenselater on

      Be a real shame if someone *accidentally* sealed up that pipe, causing all the non-water back into the polluter’s factory.

    19. ItemZealousideal431 on

      The government agency that would’ve found this probably got cut during Elon’s DOGE corruption project.

    20. the_ghost_knife on

      All waste water from industry should be safe enough to drink and the board of directors should demonstrate its safety by drinking it.

    22. Strange-Scarcity on

      Musk’s companies, just do this.

      I own (along with many other Cards Against Humanity players) a partial ownership in a strip of land in Texas, along the border. Purchased in order to fight against Trump’s Wall, and protect the land’s environment for endangered species.

      SpaceX just ignored the boundary, destroyed much of the habitat and started storing a bunch of SpaceX bullshit on the land.

      I still don’t know where that lawsuit it, but they did ignore all environmental, „zoning“ and even property right laws, because, that’s just what Elon does.

    24. insider212 on

      The fine for this will be insignificant. No one will be persuaded to stop doing this while fines are just part of the cost of doing business. Fines should be company ending for things like this.

    25. VixensPoppies on

      And that’s how the richest man manages waste materials from his manufacturing plants., no wonder he is so busy going to Mars when he is actively polluting & poisoning the earth with every action he can trying to get away with

    26. Osirus1156 on

      So they shut down the plant right? R…right? 

      They fined not just Tesla but musk personally for the entire cost of the cleanup plus any profits made since it was installed right? R…right?

      We live in a good sane country not run by the dumbest psychopaths ever who were elected by people who genuinely are jealous that they can’t be pedos and get away with it right? 

    27. Toasted_Sugar_Crunch on

      While CA is far from perfect, I’m so glad that I can raise children in a place that doesn’t allow these kind of shenanigans.

    29. dieseldeeznutz on

      Good thing DOGE removed all those pesky regulations and regulatory agencies or this might have been illegal!

    31. Alklazaris on

      Of course it was placed in a drought zone. So these people not instand there are places in this country with cheap unlimited water?

      In fact they’ll even let you dump all that raw sewage into the water. Just head over to Milwaukee Wisconsin.

    32. Ok_Poet_9170 on

      Good old Texas . Bought and paid for by the rich . Regulations , Nah those are for wimps . We want dirty water and air . Are people are tough . 

    36. Elderlyat30 on

      It’d be a shame if someone welded the pipe shut and wastewater flooded the factory.

    37. Rage_Blackout on

      >Tesla also argues that the Eurofins sampling methodology was inappropriate, because the lab placed its sampling equipment in the ditch downstream of the outfall pipe rather than at the outfall itself.

      Because lithium, vanadium, and hexavalent chromium are famously present in the ambient air and can penetrate pipes to sneak in there at any time!

    38. resist_dickTaters on

      This is why I don’t drink US sourced water. EPA doesn’t exist anymore. They pumping all kinds of shit into our lakes and rivers and they don’t give a fuck as long as shareholders are getting theirs

    40. bhillen8783 on

      They probably figured it’s cheaper to dump and get fined and then fix it than to actually dispose of it responsibly. Hope the people in the area sue the hell out of them.

    41. USDXBS on

      Stuff like this should result in companies being absolved and sold off while the owners and leadership involved spend the rest of their lives in jail.

    43. queuedUp on

      Wait?? Are you telling me that a company owned by Leon might be doing something untoward?

      I’m shocked….

    44. Fallingdamage on

      I assume things like this go on all the time. If a company thinks they can get away with it, they will do it. Containing chemicals like this is more expensive than disposing of them and if you do it gradually enough, it wont get noticed.

    45. MyChickenSucks on

      Ever see Hawk Dunlap on TikTok? Incidentally running for office, but oil and gas guy who goes around Texas finding all these capped zombie wells that are failing and just leaking shit into the soil everywhere. And no one will do anything about them. Texas doesn’t give a shit about itself.

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