• Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated environmental regulations in releasing pollutants into or nearby bodies of water in Texas, a state environmental agency said in a notice last week.
  • The report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) came five months after the Environmental Protection Agency also notified SpaceX that it had violated the Clean Water Act.
  • The violations could threaten SpaceX’s ambitions to increase Startship launches from its Starbase facility in South Texas.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    it’s sad that buying off the goverment is seen as less expensive than not fucking up the environment.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s sad that, in many cases it’s literally less expensive than not fucking up the environment.