{"id":4807,"date":"2025-10-29T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:45:45","slug":"memphis-community-pushes-back-against-toxic-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/memphis-community-pushes-back-against-toxic-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Community Pushes Back Against Toxic Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk promised\u00a0a\u00a0predominantly Black\u00a0community in Memphis that he would\u00a0build the planet\u2019s most powerful supercomputer in their neighborhood that\u00a0would\u00a0create\u00a0hundreds of jobs and millions in tax revenues. \u00a0However, in\u00a0doing\u00a0so he\u00a0bypassed\u00a0environmental review\u00a0processes and\u00a0now is\u00a0pumping\u00a0tons of\u00a0toxic nitrogen oxides into\u00a0a region\u00a0that is\u00a0already\u00a0choking on industrial pollution. \u00a0The\u00a0neighborhood\u00a0is\u00a0fighting\u00a0back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Historic Black Community Takes On the World\u2019s Richest Man Over Environmental Racism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/musk-xai-memphis-black-neighborhood-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/musk-xai-memphis-black-neighborhood-pollution<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781138315877\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk promised\u00a0a\u00a0predominantly Black\u00a0community in Memphis that he would\u00a0build the planet\u2019s most powerful supercomputer in their neighborhood that\u00a0would\u00a0create\u00a0hundreds of jobs and millions in tax revenues. \u00a0However, in\u00a0doing\u00a0so he\u00a0bypassed\u00a0environmental review\u00a0processes and\u00a0now is\u00a0pumping\u00a0tons of\u00a0toxic nitrogen oxides into\u00a0a region\u00a0that is\u00a0already\u00a0choking on industrial pollution. \u00a0The\u00a0neighborhood\u00a0is\u00a0fighting\u00a0back. A Historic Black Community Takes On the World\u2019s Richest Man Over Environmental Racism https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/musk-xai-memphis-black-neighborhood-pollution&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/memphis-community-pushes-back-against-toxic-musk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Memphis Community Pushes Back Against Toxic Musk&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,55,41,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-news","category-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4875,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}