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Elon Musk's Boring Company came under fire Tuesday during a more than three-hour Nevada legislative hearing about the Elon Musk-owned tunneling startup's safety and environmental track record as it tries to dig an underground transit system below Las Vegas.State legislators on Nevada's growth and infrastructure interim standing committee presented a lengthy list of violations that Boring has racked up since 2019-including citations over chemical burns; digging too close to the Las Vegas monorail; hundreds of environmental violations;

The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada (EDAWN), a non-profit that recruits companies to do business and expand in the state, paid Boring Company $50,000 in October to draw up conceptual designs and conduct a feasibility report for a new transportation alternative to the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, the mega-business complex that houses Tesla's Gigafactory, according to a copy of the study invoice, which was obtained by Fortune via a Freedom of Information Act Request.

Representative Dina Titus, of Nevada, sent a letter to Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo Wednesday night, urging him to hold Elon Musk's tunneling company, Boring Company, accountable after firefighters were burned by chemicals in its tunnels and after the company was caught dumping wastewater in Las Vegas manholes. "This project in Southern Nevada has been riddled with safety and environmental concerns since the start," wrote Congresswoman Titus, a Democrat, and one of four politicians representing the state of Nevada in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD) claims that, this summer, Boring Company employees refused to stop dumping drilling fluids when inspectors arrived at its project site near the center of town and directed them to stop, according to the violation. The next day, Boring apparently "feigned compliance" only to continue dumping the wastewater after a company manager "assumed district inspectors had departed the property," according to a cease-and-desist letter.

Tesla vehicles operating in the Boring Company's Vegas Loop are about to get a big change, CEO Elon Musk said. In Las Vegas, the Boring Company operates the Vegas Loop, an underground tunnel system that uses Teslas to drop people off at various hotspots on the strip. It's been active for a few years now and is expanding to other resorts, hotels, and destinations.

Elon Musk's Boring Company has reportedly stopped work on a tunnel it's been digging to the Las Vegas airport after a worker sustained a "crushing injury" late Wednesday night, according to Fortune. Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation. The Clark County Fire Department received a call at 10:12 p.m. local time on Wednesday and dispatched an 18-person rescue crew to the site.

In his comments, Hill noted that Tesla's FSD tests in the Boring Company's underground tunnels in Las Vegas have been going on for months. However, the full-self driving Teslas have reportedly not been carrying passengers during the tests. Interestingly enough, Hill noted that the FSD-driven vehicles have not had any incidents in the Boring Company tunnels yet, though safety drivers have been required to intervene "periodically."

The tunnel will run 10 miles from city center to the airport on Nashville's south-east corridor, with its entrance just steps from the airport.