Apple Settles With EPA After Hazardous Waste Violations at California Facility

[Joz3d]

...Apple has a semiconductor facility in Santa Clara?? They are secretly themselves doing chip fab in America after all?

 

[gaximus]

$261k?

For Apple that's an invisible fine. Like you or me paying a nickel to park downtown.

It’s not supposted to hurt them, it’s supposted to fix the damage caused by them. Its actually probably too much considering they said there was no actual damage to the environment.

 

[stayviscous]

Yeh, forget the people getting sick over it Lol,..it’s all about the environment.

If people were getting sick it would have several more 0s attached to it. Permits and labels don't amount to dumping toxic waste. That's a whole other violation that didn't exist here. The issue with the abatement system would have been a potential danger (though nothing of that nature has been reported) to people who were working inside the building.... this lady, the one who claims to have industrial exposure that nearly killed her, worked in a different Apple building in another city. She claims to have gotten sick from a quarter mile away on the third floor through her apartment window. Looking through her history of claims, she appears to be a hypochondriac and extremely dramatic. Just watch the YouTube video she posted...

...Apple has a semiconductor facility in Santa Clara?? They are secretly themselves doing chip fab in America after all?

According the Bloomberg it's an R&D facility that makes MicroLED prototypes. And some other sources said a Titan team was laid off from this building.

 

[SPUY767]

Comparing yourself, a layman who SHOULD know next to nothing about this stuff is an incredible defense of Apple who has the money, and an army of the best lawyers on the planet to ensure they don't make these mistakes. There is absolutely no excuse for this from a company of their stature, and you should not be giving them one.

I wasn't defending Apple so much as dunking on the EPA who decided that it a was a wise use of tax dollars to send two federal agents to some random dude's house because he's using 1/4 of the rainwater than falls in a 1300ft^2 patch of his 30 acre property to water his garden. That being said, I did read, in its entirety, the regulation I was supposedly violating, and if other EPA regulations are written in such an open ended fashion, no lawyer, regardless of education or experience, could ever concretely interpret them.