At this point, the suits at Tesla probably figure their public image can’t get much worse.
According to new reporting by SFGate, the Tesla’s factory in Freemont, California is planning a thirteenfold increase of heavy metal particles into the surrounding area. Besides the massive residential population nearby, there’s another glaring problem with the company’s plans: an elementary school right next door.
As parents of children attending the Lila Bringhurst Elementary School told SFGate, the Bay Area Air District — the local government agency in charge of regulating air quality — issued a vague and wishy-washy memo meant to inform them of the planned emissions spike.
Though the Tesla plant is looking to increase its total suspended particulate (TSP) emission count by 13 times its current level, SFGate reports the notice to parents only used words like “modify” and “abatement” to describe the change. What’s worse, many parents didn’t even see the email, and only learned about the coming emission spike from a Substack blog published by an anonymous user.
