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Musk's xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

"xAI has added 19 natural gas turbines to its second data center campus in Southhaven, Mississippi, over the past two months, according to internal emails seen by WIRED. The additions come as xAI is fighting a lawsuit from the NAACP and several environmental groups, alleging that the company is violating the Clean Air Act by operating more than two dozen natural gas turbines at the site without appropriate air permits."

Source: WIRED, 05/13/2026

EPA Plan: Let Work Start On Data Centers, Power Plants Before Air Permits

"EPA on Monday proposed allowing data centers, power plants and other industrial facilities to begin certain construction work before obtaining required federal air permits."

Source: E&E News, 05/13/2026

Watchdog Sues Trump Interior Dept, Demanding Docs on Freedom 250 Funding

"“America’s 250th anniversary celebration is supposed to be an occasion for strengthening public trust in our democratic institutions,” said one advocate. “Freedom 250 is a privately managed slush fund.”"

Source: Common Dreams, 05/13/2026

Red State AGs Want EPA To Censor Public Database About Chem Plant Hazards

"A group of 18 state attorneys general are pushing EPA to delete its public online database of chemical facilities, citing vulnerabilities to hackers or other security threats."

Source: E&E News, 05/13/2026

Trump DOI Cancels Rule That Made Conservation A ‘Use’ Of Public Lands

"The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land."

Source: AP, 05/12/2026

"As Coal Rebounds, More Toxic Mercury Is in the Air"

"Coal-fired power plants across the country released more mercury last year as power demand surged, reversing a yearslong downward trend in the emissions of a toxic metal that impairs brain development."

Source: New York Times, 05/12/2026

Trump Says He’ll Move To Suspend US Gasoline Tax, But He Needs Congress

"President Donald Trump said Monday he will move to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war. The president cannot suspend the federal tax on his own. Congress would have to approve the move."

Source: AP, 05/12/2026

"Enviros Say Supreme Court Decision Boosts States’ ‘Climate Superfunds’"

"A recent Supreme Court decision allowing a soldier to sue a military contractor in state court undercuts the Trump administration’s efforts to erase state climate laws, New York state and a coalition of environmental groups contend."

Source: E&E News, 05/08/2026

"Microsoft May Abandon Its Clean Energy Powered Data Centre Targets"

"Microsoft Corp. may shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centres, according to people with knowledge of the matter."

Source: Bloomberg, 05/08/2026

Appalachian Lithium Deposit Could Replace 328 Years Of Imports: USGS

"The U.S. Geological Survey announced a massive lithium deposit in the Appalachian Mountains, large enough to replace years of imports of the mineral." "While the figure is an official USGS estimate, extracting the mineral poses major technical and environmental challenges."

Source: Snopes, 05/08/2026

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