Musk’s Boring Co. violated environmental regulations nearly 800 times, Nevada alleges

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Nevada controllers say that despite the agreed not to do the company, the tunnel and infrastructure agency Elon Mask’s boring cor, tunnel and infrastructure have repeatedly violated state environmental rules.

Boring Co., under the process of extension of a tunnel network under Las Vegas Accordingly In a report of prophecy. About 100 violations occurred after the agency signed an agreement with the state regulators in 2022, which tried to force the company to comply with state law.

The alleged violation includes digging without approval, throwing water on the city streets, failing to install the poly fence and tracking dirt from the construction sites on the nearby roadway.

Boring Co. can be fined more than $ 3 million, but controllers have decided to combine some violations, bringing the fine to $ 242,800.

The Department of Environmental Protection of the Nevada Department says that the total reduction is “a reasonable penalty that can still prevent non-compliance behavior of the future.”

The Las Vegas Tunnel System is planned to extend the connector to 104 stations from a few miles to 104 miles today.

However, that expansion was not without any other problem. Operations on a tunnel made at Boring Co. Las Vegas Airport had to be suspended in September because a worker To endure a “crushing hit” When they become pinned between two 4,000 feet pipes.

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