The Agreed Order shows that Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) plans to allow the company to run some of its so-called temporary turbines for more than a year —…
Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement, Earthjustice: “It’s remarkable for the United States to intervene on behalf of a polluter in a case like this. Ordinarily, they would intervene to enforce the law.”
Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement: “There is no moral or legal precedent for this. This isn’t about national security; it’s a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.”
Instead of addressing its Clean Air Act violations, Elon Musk’s company added even more unpermitted gas turbines to its illegal powerplant — saddling nearby communities with harmful toxic emissions
NAACP filed a request for a preliminary injunction to stop unpermitted air pollution from an illegal power plant built by Elon Musk’s company, xAI, and its subsidiary, MZX Tech.
Laura Thoms, Director of Enforcement at Earthjustice, explains our lawsuit. There are no exceptions that would allow this major source of pollution to evade the law.
SELC and Earthjustice are representing the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP and the national NAACP in a lawsuit against xAI and its subsidiary, MZX Tech, for the tech companies’…
The lawsuit explains that xAI is illegally operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit in Southaven, Mississippi, effectively building a power plant for its Colossus 2 data center, which…
Notice of intent to sue for violations of the Clean Air Act at the gas turbines power plant located at 2875 Stanton Road S., Southaven, MS, that powers xAI’s Colossus…