🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️
US EPA Enforcement & Compliance conducted 3 onsite inspections of Apple's fab facility in 8/2023 + 1/2024. US EPA noted at least *19* potential violations of the RCRA hazardous waste statute. Read the report:
via Proton drive.proton.me/urls/KPZ6E31...
or via Dropbox www.dropbox.com/home/Apple_I...
After discovering what Apple did, I then spent three months requesting records & digging through regulatory filings to learn more - which then led me to file a complaint to US EPA in June 2023.
I met with EPA investigators, answered questions, & sent them everything I gathered.
I told US EPA I didn't want my whistleblowing about the fab to be anonymous, and instead, that if EPA shows up onsite to inspect the plant, when they do, please have the EPA cops tell Apple: "Ashley says hi."
It looks like EPA did what I asked. 🔥
DOD Inspector General emphasized keeping me anonymous. I responded, "Since I've been raising these issues through the chain-of-command, they are going to have a pretty good idea that it's me."
I eventually concluded that the rules for making whistleblowers identity officially anonymous serve more to keep whistleblowers from contacting each other for support than to keep the powerful from knowing whom to retaliate against.
