Tesla leaving Austin regulations leads to environmental concerns

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — A petition by Tesla to release nearly 2,100 acres of land from Austin's extraterritorial jurisdiction, or ETJ, has been approved. But many are concerned because Giga Texas will no longer have to follow Austin's environmental regulations that they've been under for the last four years. The city's regulations included standards on water and air quality. "We're always concerned about being down water and downwind of anything that happens over there," Richard Franklin, a resident of one …