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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again

A Nevada regulator accused Boring of dumping drilling fluids into a county sewage system in Las Vegas, the latest in a series of violations against the moonshot tunneling startup.

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again

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