The wealthiest man on the planet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, also happens to be the CEO of several other companies at the same time including SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI, and The Boring Company. Musk isn’t known for keeping promises at Tesla or any of those other companies, and now his Boring Company was caught lying — for a second time. A Clark County, Nevada environmental regulator fined The Boring Company $492,297.08 for continuing to illegally dump drilling fluids into sewers and manholes around Las Vegas a day after a Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) inspector told TBC to stop.
Fortune originally reported on the news after it obtained the notice of the violation via a records request. Apparently the drilling fluids that The Boring Company was illegally dumping contain several chemicals, including some toxic chemicals like MasterRoc AGA 41S. Boring Company employees have allegedly received burns from exposed skin coming into direct contact with these chemicals.
The Boring Company has been in hot water before
Because of The Boring Company’s illegal disposal of drilling fluid from two project sites, CCWRD said its crews had to clean 12 cubic yards of drilling mud, drilling spoils, and miscellaneous solid waste from one of its sewage treatment facilities. The $131,297 fee for that service was included in the nearly $500,000 fine, with the remainder primarily coming from “the egregious nature of the violations, the substantial damage to district infrastructure, the district emergency resources expended responding to the violations, and Boring Company’s acknowledgement of the violations.”
According to Fortune, “The violation records show that several Boring Company executives attended a hearing with CCWRD at the end of September and that Boring Company acknowledged responsibility and agreed not to expand Boring’s operations to new drilling locations “until certain conditions were met.”…