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#AirPollution

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"In her resignation letter, Kimberly Terrell accused the university of sacrificing academic freedom to appease Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Terrell, the director of community engagement at Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic claimed the clinic had been 'placed under a complete gag order' that barred her from making public statements about her research."

apnews.com/article/cancer-alle

Joy Banner, co-founder of The Descendants Project and a leader in the fight against Greenfield, hugs Kimberly Terrell, then a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, which represented the Descendants Project, moments after hearing that the company would cease plans for a grain elevator facility in the middle of her hometown of Wallace, which is in a heavily industrialized stretch of Louisiana commonly referred to by environmental groups as "Cancer Alley." Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook, File)
AP News · Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity researchA Tulane University researcher has resigned, citing censorship from university leaders. Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the university had sacrificed academic integrity for political expediency. University leaders had warned Terrell that her advocacy and research on Louisiana petrochemical industry’s impacts had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials. Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that top Tulane officials worried the law clinic had become an “impediment” to securing funding for a university redevelopment project. Tulane spokesperson Michael Strecker says the university “is fully committed to academic freedom.”
#PublicHealth#environment#cancer
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma.

None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.

The company has no Clean Air Act permits.

In just 11 months since the company arrived in Memphis, xAI has become one of Shelby County’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides, according to calculations by environmental groups whose data has been reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News. The plant is in an area whose air is already considered unhealthy due to smog.

The turbines spew nitrogen oxides, also known as NOx, at an estimated rate of 1,200 to 2,000 tons a year — far more than the gas-fired power plant across the street or the oil refinery down the road."

politico.com/news/2025/05/06/e

#USA Tennessee #Memphis #AirPollution #AI #GenerativeAI #xAI #Musk

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