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Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment gets the cake. The guy just expressed surprise at how zoning works in California and he is absolutely right. Your comment sounds like you didn’t read through.

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What conspiracy? You're really reading into things a bit much.

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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This is just one small facility in the US. Imagine the damage being done world wide where there are fewer regulations and and even fewer inspectors. We're outsourcing our pollution.

Is this the same person that wrote about how their apartment complex was constructed on an un-mitigated FEMA site? I think she should move to a more rural location, many cities have this kind of contamination.

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

#154

This is just one small facility in the US. Imagine the damage being done world wide where there are fewer regulations and and even fewer inspectors. We're outsourcing our pollution. Is this the same person that wrote about how their apartment complex was constructed on an un-mitigated FEMA site? I think she should move to a more rural location, many cities have this kind of contamination.

Moving away won't fix the problem. As someone who lives in a large city, The response to companies destroying our environment shouldn't be move away. I'm not even a "tree hugger" and this pisses me off. We only have us to rely on. Fixing and preventing this issue doesn't seem like a hard decision to make.

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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Why is it so hard for companies to just do the right thing? Like it isn't a lack of resources for Apple, it isn't a lack of education or safety awareness. It's wilfull disregarding of the health of innocent strangers. People need to go to jail for this.

It's hard for companies to do the right thing because the wrong thing is cheaper, and cheaper is king in business

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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This is an EPA report, presumably they do not base their findings upon any beef a whistleblower may have. And, not knowing more about the story as you seem to, she claims her beef is based on the fact that she got sick from gases Apple was venting from this same facility. At least from what I saw on Twitter, this EPA report, in some sense, is the beef.

I guess OP was talking about the fact the woman reporting this is in a legal fight with Apple?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22610112/apple-female-engi...

Gotta say, it was a 2 minutes Google Search away, btw, so not really sure why people wouldn't take the time to search a bit before lecturing fellow users and downvoting.

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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I am actually very critical of Apple in what I write, being European and all. Your comment is offensive and a personal attack.

What I was referring to is that the woman reporting the case to the EPA and making unproven allegation about Apple conspiring to cover up their mistakes is someone who has legal history with the company.

@dang, I am constantly reprimanded about expressing strong opinions here, but that's alright to get brigaded instead?

Re: US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

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There is a disappointing amount of character slander rather than refutation of the author's claims happening on this thread. The foremost trustworthy party is the EPA. Note, I am not a lawyer or anyone who could professionally give an opinion on this.* The most egregious violation the author purports Apple did is the illegal venting of hazardous chemicals. IMHO, the most plausible evidence supporting the author's cla…

Thanks for taking the time to read the actual reports. The Mastodon thread is editorialized and manipulated to an extreme and it’s clear that the author is pushing an agenda. I wish we had some better news coverage and analysis, rather than a social media post to link to.

This author wastes no time mixing her imagined claims with the EPA report, such as insinuating that Apple was doing worse things but hid them before the inspectors could get there.

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