Tesla should receive a FIFA environmental prize.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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So, which entry-level employee with no ability to be responsible for this will be fired, and how big will the fine they won't have to pay be?
Companies don't make structural mistakes. They are famously individualistic and unorganized and all illegal acts are by lone wolves and bad apples. All good work is done by CEO or the board. The rest of the individuals are parasites
/s in case someone needs
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Per the article:
The sample was collected on April 7. Eurofins issued its results on April 10. According to the lab report, the 24-hour composite found:
• Hexavalent chromium at 0.0104 milligrams per liter, just above the lab’s reporting limit of 0.01 mg/L. Hexavalent chromium is classified as a known human carcinogen by the US National Toxicology Program. It is the substance the Erin Brockovich case was built around.
• Arsenic at 0.0025 mg/L. That is below the federal drinking water standard of 0.01 mg/L, but present.
• Strontium at 1.17 mg/L. Mazloum’s technical report on the findings noted that long-term exposure can affect bone density and kidney function in humans and wildlife.
• Lithium and vanadium at concentrations Lazarte’s letter described as abnormally high relative to rainwater or normal groundwater.
• Elevated levels of manganese, iron, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and potassium consistent with industrial discharge. Manganese, a battery process tracer, can have neurological effects at chronic doses. Excess phosphorus can cause algae blooms that strip oxygen from waterways.
• Ammonia in the form of nitrogen at 1.68 mg/L, amplifying the algae bloom risk
Let's hope they didn't just make the data up. Or falsify it at the request of Musk. https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2018/03/14/Pennsylvania-DEP-sanctions-Eurofins-QC-for-water-testing-violations/
3.6 Roentgen, not great, not terrible.
That's a suspiciously low level of arsenic. Where is the arsenic from their wells or municipal water ending up or are they clandestinely pumping river water?
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And I'm guessing water treatment doesn't fix these, does it?
It can. But you'd need a facility built to do it.
If you don't anticipate Strontium in your wastewater, you're not going to build a system to leech it out or neutralize it.
Given the state of Texas' infrastructure, probably fair to assume this doesn't exist.
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Plug that pipe with Elon's bloated corpse
No don't kill him first.
Sure he's not dead? He's already been a bloated decomposing body for years.
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It's Texas so nobody will do anything
Which is why he moved there in the first place
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This is some Chemetco level shit
Wooow, it's like when your SimCity takes a terrible turn.
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Wouldn't it be a shame if someone accidentally crushed that pipe shut with a trackhoe.
Then it goes completely uncontrolled into the ground and is very hard to remove. What you want to do is to seal the pipe so the back flow happens inside the facility (assuming they didn't completely butcher the pipe installation, which.... you know... isn't safe to assume)
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Why no photo?
Seems like a photo of a pipe dislodging black sludge next to a photo of a tesla factory in a news page would instill a better sense of "evil corporation" to me.
This article links to another article that has it on video and photographed. You can see the clearly black liquid flowing into the clear water in the drainage ditch. Helps to click the link and read the article!
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Don't hold the multi trillionaire accountable tho
Let's charge them a comically small fine, that'll teach them not to do it again!
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This is what motherfickers do when there's no consequences for breaking the law
From the article:
None of this is illegal as currently constituted, because the permit that was written does not require monitoring for the things the independent lab found.
No law is being broken. This may be terrible, but it's legal.
If our government isn't up to holding criminals responsible, then it needs to be replaced root to stem.
What an appropriate username for this article
Why bother with expensive waste disposing process when you can just dump it somewhere.
Externalities make the capitalism go round
Who is going to drink the forbidden juice? At least it will cure your depression.
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