Elon Musk’s tunneling and infrastructure company, The Boring Company, repeatedly violated state environmental regulations even after the company agreed not to violate them, Nevada regulators said.
The Boring Company, which is expanding Las Vegas’ underground tunnel system, has been charged with about 800 violations, ProPublica reports. Nearly 100 of the violations occurred after the company entered into an agreement with state regulators in 2022 to force compliance with state law.
The alleged violations include digging without a permit, dumping untreated water onto city streets, failing to install silt fences, and tracking construction site dirt onto nearby roads.
Boring Co. could have been fined more than $3 million, but regulators decided to combine some violations and reduce the fine to $242,800.
The Nevada Department of Environmental Protection said reducing the total amount “provides sufficient penalties to deter future violations.”
The Las Vegas tunnel system will be expanded from its current few miles to 100 miles, connecting 104 stations.
But this expansion was not without other problems. Work on a tunnel being built by Boring Co. to the Las Vegas airport had to be halted in September after a worker suffered a “crushing injury” after becoming trapped between two 4,000-foot-long pipes.
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