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Elon Musk’s A.I. Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines

17 juin 2025 à 23:08
The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.

© Karen Pulfer Focht, via Reuters

Construction on Elon Musk’s supercomputer project in Memphis in April.

Is Fake Grass Safe? A Manufacturer Sues to Stop a Discussion.

17 juin 2025 à 10:10
Four experts were sued for defamation ahead of a seminar where they planned to talk about research into the potential health risks on playgrounds and sports fields nationwide.

© Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg

Artificial turf is used as a low-maintenance alternative to grass and is now installed on thousands of fields around the country.
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A Billionaire Island Where Bezos and Kushner Live Is Fighting Over Sewage

13 juin 2025 à 14:16
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

Trump Approves Expansion of Scandal-Hit Coal Mine

6 juin 2025 à 13:13
Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.

© Louise Johns for The New York Times

The entrance to Bull Mountain mine near Billings, Mont., in 2022

Gaining traction, losing tread Pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions — Emissions Analytics

9 mai 2025 à 09:11
By some distance, the research Emissions Analytics published in early 2020 claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions generated the most feedback of any subject we have tackled so far – feedback that was a mixture of surprise and scepticism
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