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Trump’s DOJ intervenes to keep Musk’s xAI gas turbines polluting Memphis

The DOJ asked a federal court to toss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against Musk's xAI, citing national security to keep 57 unpermitted gas turbines running.

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The US Department of Justice has asked a federal court to throw out a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, arguing that the company’s unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.” The move puts the Trump administration in court alongside Musk to defend dozens of methane-burning turbines that have been running without air permits in one of the most polluted regions of the country.

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