SpaceX CEO Elon Musk helps break ground on the Boca Chica, Texas site of its new spaceport in far south Texas.Elon Musk might like to talk about building a city of the future on Mars, but he’s building a city of the past down in Texas. On Thursday, Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX filed paperwork to turn, its launch site located in Southern Texas, into a company town.
Of course, if you ask the people who monitor SpaceX’s wannabe city, those civic functions are not exactly being performed, to begin with. Earlier this year,Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality have determined that SpaceX has violated the Clean Water Act. Both agencies levied fines totaling more than $150,000 against the company in September.
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