SpaceX repeatedly polluted waters in Texas this year, regulators found
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated environmental regulations in releasing pollutants into or nearby bodies of water in Texas, a state environmental agency said in a notice last week.
- The report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) came five months after the Environmental Protection Agency also notified SpaceX that it had violated the Clean Water Act.
- The violations could threaten SpaceX’s ambitions to increase Startship launches from its Starbase facility in South Texas.
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