Tesla ordered to stop releasing toxic emissions from San Francisco Bay Area plant
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.
Fine Tesla! What is the god damned problem here?
In this day and age there needs to be a non-corporate independent panel that categorizes by type and sets a steep price on each lb or kg of air pollution.
That way when this shit happens they get hit with a bill high enough it can't be just added to the business as operating costs.
Give them x days to pay and charge interest like a corp would do to normal people. Having the gov't back this panel would be better.
Pass laws locally in the areas these plants exist and start there.
We have a toothless EPA that can determine the problems. Every time they attempt to impose a fine, more power is taken from them. The newly conservative SCOTUS took power plant regulations out of their control just two years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/us/epa-carbon-emissions-scotus.html
Don’t worry, SCOTUS keeps going exactly how you describe
https://lemmy.world/post/16983726
Fuck. Well, this is what we get for thinking we can change the government with abstention.
Seems like a local or state regulation - epa has no jurisdiction
Congress writes the law, then the EPA supports local and state agencies like the DEP in defining processes to uphold it. If the EPA doesn’t have the authority, then it’s likely the state programs don’t either. It would be up to the governor to empower the DEP or other local environmental enforcement agencies to have more authority than the EPA.