Lords, this is how easy it is to get away with it? There's no incentive for them to stop then, because disposing of this waste would surely cost more and it's not like they're environmentalists who would prioritise nature over carmaking. Seems especially egregious compared to the GM settlement mentioned in the article - at $773 million.
> 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).
Maybe the scale, duration, impact and response were different? As I said in the other comment this story appears to be about Tesla service centers' waste, and the GM issue you mentioned is about manufacturing facilities.
> The United States alleged in bankruptcy filings that Old GM operated an aluminum diecasting plant on the Massena property from 1959 to 2009, and that Old GM disposed of hazardous substances including polycholorinated biphenyls (also known as PCBs) at the property
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-announces-appro...
That was at just one site over a span of half a century.
The previous submission It's the Impunity, Stupid doesn't go nearly as far into discussing how incredibly inappropriately & unseriously Tesla has taken waste disposal. But it covers these other topics. And, key, it has the appropriate level of contempt for how Tesla has never met with any real reckoning, how they have been a serial violator that seems to not care in the slightest. And it points out how ridiculous it is that we keep letting them get away with it, that they have never faced any consequences of concern. https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235146
> In 2022, New Jersey sued Ford for dumping toxic paint sludge and contaminating “hundreds of acres of soil, water, wetlands” and state-recognized tribal lands of the Ramapough Lenape Nation.
A fine of a three quarters of a billion seems like a lot. Sounds like the issues were with GM factories vs Tesla's issue in only the service centers? Would square with Tesla's fine being only $1.5 Million.