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Chief U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown denied the dismissal motion by xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech in a 28-page ruling. She rejected their reliance on Mississippi regulators’ determination that the gas turbines were exempt from permits, their challenge to the NAACP’s statutory right to bring the case and their claim that the Clean Air Act’s citizen-suit provision is unconstitutional.

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the gas turbines powering Elon Musk’s xAI data centers in Memphis. The ruling lets the lawsuit continue and allows the Environmental Protection Agency to join it.

Both valves that seal an emergency vent on a 52-year-old Alabama nuclear reactor leaked beyond federal limits in testing yesterday, a condition that could let more radioactive material escape during a severe accident than the plant’s safety analysis allows for.