Air quality regulators accuse Tesla of repeated pollution violations at Fremont plant; seek abatement order

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Air quality regulators accuse Tesla of repeated pollution violations at Fremont plant; seek abatement order
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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has accused Tesla's Fremont plant of potentially emitting thousands of tons of illegal air pollutants in recent years and is seeking an order to force the company to take measures to stop.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has accused Tesla 's Fremont plant of potentially emitting thousands of tons of illegal air pollutants in recent years and is seeking an order to force the company to take measures to stop. The company has racked up 112 notices of violations since 2019 for a variety of reasons, resulting in as much as 750 pounds of unmitigated air pollution per violation.

Updates on the hearing can be found at www.baaqmd.gov. To sign up for automatic updates visit www.baaqmd.gov/contact-us/sign-up-for-information. The Fremont plant's paint shop is the target of the abatement order. It has been the source of many of the violations the Air District issued for releasing toxic emissions and precursor chemicals directly into the atmosphere.

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