Musk fined for pollution at the Fremont factory

Musk fined for pollution at the Fremont factory

Tesla, which defines itself as the most sustainable and green manufacturer in the world, recently received a fine from the EPA (United States Agency for the Protection of the Environment) for a violation of the Clean Air Act. for environmental protection. Elon Musk's company, Tesla, has therefore received a fine of just under 250 thousand euros for having overcome the level of pollution in the paint shop of the factory in Fremont, California.

This is, a after all, of a symbolic fine which, however, creates a considerable damage to the image. More specifically, Tesla violated the provisions of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Surface Coating of Automobiles regulation between October 2016 and September 2019. The EPA accuses Tesla of failing to "develop and / or implement a planning program for work activities capable of minimizing the emissions of dangerous atmospheric pollutants, produced by the storage and mixing of liquids used in vehicle painting operations "and not having compiled the appropriate registers reporting the data relating to emissions.

In the note, reported directly on the official EPA website, Tesla allegedly used over 180 chemicals known or suspected of causing cancer or other serious health effects; the Californian manufacturer, during the construction phases of its cars, would have used materials containing formaldehyde, ethylbenzene, naphthalene and xylene. Tesla, it says, has already corrected the violations found in the agreements and is now in effect a Clean Air Act compliant company.



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