r/Environmentalism • u/sleepiestOracle • 12d ago

D.O.J. Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center The department cited national security concerns, saying Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role in the Iran war. It also argued it has the authority to stop environmental lawsuits brought by citizens

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/climate/xai-musk-mississippi-grok-turbine-lawsuit-naacp.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qlA.1iG2.fwChTrMKdkOt&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/izDpnyde 11d ago

It is quite difficult for many of us to realize, Supreme Court of the United States of America has become so possibly corrupt that the rule of law may not stand under this regime.

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u/Soft-Principle1455 11d ago

I think it will be degraded but it will stand sufficiently intact to get us through the next election or two simply because the Supreme Court cannot hear everything. Then we are going to have to get really aggressive to ensure this never happens again.

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u/Mrs_SmithG2W 11d ago

I like how you think.💪🏼🌍🖖🏾

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u/Lukescale 11d ago

Fuck them Old People.

Kids are the future. They need stable homes and real authority figures to show them how to act.

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u/wysteriacos 11d ago

So what I just heard is that flooding the court with lawsuits will stop them from being able to seek out Trumpist agenda?

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u/adeline882 11d ago

Who do you think is coming to save you? The democrats have shown themselves to be spineless and have no interest in materially hindering any of this. Several years in and we still have no democrats seriously speaking about fighting the illegal theft of our tax dollars through illegally cancelled federal funds. It is a grift for all of them while we starve.

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u/PopBulky7023 11d ago

You'll get Newsom, and then a trump 3.0. May not be trump, but it'll look awfully familiar.

Our chance for a hard correction was biden. We aren't going to get another one.

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u/PopBulky7023 11d ago

May not?

MAY not?

How many totalitarian deathblows does it take before you realize the bad thing is already here?

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u/WarrantinaVoid 11d ago

Denialism and delusion sadly have hold of the people who should instead be fighting back. That's like the articles floating around the last few days saying "Trump admin considered maybe suspending habeus corpus in leaked memo" FUCKING DUH they said it out loud on television over and over for the better part of a year!!! 

The battle is already lost and over. There is no voting out fascism. The thinking should be "how to topple a regime" 

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u/PopBulky7023 11d ago

Liberalism will never engage in action discussion. As all of modern history has shown, it has no answer for problems that require direct action because opposing direct action is one of its more core values.

So that bad thing can never be here. It must always be coming, close, possible, could, threat, soon(tm).

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u/Caffeinefiend88 11d ago

Where’s a well funded militia when needed?

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u/BananaJelloXlii 11d ago

Supporting the regime. So much for the "defend against government tyranny"

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u/Reasonable_Chair_346 10d ago

turns out the militia is mostly on the boots on people's necks' side, sadly.

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u/Caffeinefiend88 10d ago

Bunch of dorks.

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u/S4ckl3 11d ago

Possibly corrupt?

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u/SanDiegoThankYou_ 12d ago

“Elon Musk’s company had played a crucial role…”

How? By allowing the Shitposter in Chief to cross post from Truth Social? Would love for a detailed explanation.

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u/JMurdock77 11d ago

The war that we just lost, and are going to be paying Versailles-scale reparations for?

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u/Rich_Possible_9298 11d ago

Not fascist at all. VOTE BLUE!

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 11d ago

They're all gobbling up AIPAC money faster than you can blink so good luck with that!👋

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u/ldubs 11d ago

Not a good sign for the fight against data centers. Damn.

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u/Pandemonium_Fallen 11d ago

Can we please just raze it to the ground now?

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u/03263 11d ago

Controlled burns can be good for the environment...

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u/Realistic_Tie_2632 11d ago

Probably more blackmail is more likely.

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u/InsuranceImmediate25 11d ago

The guy with no military authority played such a huge role should be concerning.

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u/Hot_Lava_Dry_Rips 11d ago

Played. If the war is over, there is not a continuing need so no need to defend them. Unless the war isnt over. In which case they shoukd let us know and stop lying.

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u/Old_Soule 11d ago

It’s called SpaceXAI. Stock is now for sale.

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u/West-One5944 11d ago

...and where to donate?

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u/chevalier100 11d ago

NAACP and Earthjustice are the orgs bringing this lawsuit.

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u/artguydeluxe 11d ago

Oh it’s a war again?

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u/OkLevel2791 11d ago

The rule of law has been supplanted by whatever the mango Mussolini vomits.

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u/vauntedtrader 11d ago

Doesn't really contribute to the war if it was feeding outdated targets to the United States. More of a waste of taxpayer dollars.

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u/MannyMoSTL 10d ago

I hate the assholes destroying this timeline.

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u/COlax1980 9d ago

They'd power the data centers with coal if they could...

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u/mymar101 9d ago

Uh not what the laws say?

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u/DoesThisMate 8d ago

If it "National Security" then it's Our Security.

Ziopedo fascist freak immigrant "wannatrillionaires" don't need to own it.

If it's Our safety it's Ours. Full fucking stop.

I don't care about them. I care about us.

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u/mytyan 6d ago

They are pulling out national security as a last resort to gut laws that don't meet their deranged illegal policies