Nevada legislators blast Boring Company over safety and environmental violations as Elon Musk-owned startup declines to testify in hearing

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...