If there were ever a use for the EPA, surely “stopping megacorps from releasing toxic chemicals into residential neighborhoods and retaliating against whistleblowers” would be it.

We’re not talking about some agile startup that rents the nearest place where they can assemble their hardware. This is one of the three most valuable companies in the world, essentially purchasing residential real estate to use as a venue for unsupervised high-tech manufacturing that flouts all environmental regulations they’d otherwise be subject to. And the reason is so that their highly paid employees can have a shorter commute to their R&D lab.