Is that the cost of doing business? $1.5MM surely cannot be impactful to changing behavior of large companies.

Good. Maybe for once they'll get what they deserve.

That’ll teach em.

The flagged dead article from The Verge How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California? covered the absurd ridiculous grotesqueriees at stake here well. Tesla basically appears to have made zero effort to dispose of hazardous waste with even a modicum of care. They just piled whatever they had up, and contacted waste disposal companies, without a lick of concern. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241424 https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/3/24058476/tesla-hazardous-w...

But the utterly toothless lack of even a modest fine, these insultingly pathetic fines? Part of a hideous pattern. The pattern of the state doing nothing of consequence was very well covered by an earlier submission: It's the Impunity, Stupid. Tesla has been a chronic offender for years, but even after facing & being fined a token amount for dozens of Clean Air Act regulations, their number of violations go up and up. https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235146

This company has never faced consequences. This is the latest insult to the world, the latest display that this company can do whatever it wants and face zero consequences. Tesla is literally letting arsenic & gasoline & worse at horrific rates into the water and this shitty zero-consequences slap on the wrist is all government has? How have things been left to go so completely off the rails, fallen to such Captain Planet level supervillainy, and how is the state doing basically nothing to correct this?