Comment by semiquaver
9 hours ago
The permit also didn’t list strawberry bubblegum. The levels of these pollutants were found to be similar to background levels. Where do you think arsenic comes from?
If the Texas regulators are asleep at the wheel then be mad at them. Businesses are guided by laws, but there’s no allegation any laws were broken. I’m no Tesla partisan but this just feels like mindless ragebait.
neat trick is to realize you dont have to pick sides.
you can get mad at tesla for dumping wastewater with stuff they dont have a permit for, and you can be mad at the regulators failing to regulate.
But there is no evidence that they are dumping stuff they don’t have a permit for. Finding 1% over background levels in a sample tells you literally nothing.
Industrial waste is called such for a reason.
> Industrial waste is called such for a reason.
Which is why you shouldn't dump it in a river used for fishing? (Or any river for that matter)
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>But there is no evidence that they are dumping stuff they don’t have a permit for
well, except for the hexavalent chromium and arsenic findings. but yeah, more testing is needed, and the article is premature.
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Or you can get mad at journalist-bloggers for writing unscientific selective fearmongering hit pieces catering to culture-war-polarized confirmation biases.