While Elon Musk puts on his deregulation hat, Tesla has been dumping chemicals into the Austin sewer

Tesla’s mission? To “accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy” by building products “designed to replace some of the planet’s biggest polluters.”

Not quite!

The Wall Street Journal reports Tesla’s Austin plant failed to address a number of environmental issues when ramping up Model Y production in 2022, “spewing toxins into the air” and letting untreated “hazardous wastewater from production — containing paint, oil and other chemicals” spill into the city’s sewer “for months.”