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Chubb Group Drops Insurance Coverage From Hotly Debated LNG Plant In SW Louisiana 1 hatrack May 16 May 16 3 310
And Another Obligatory "Will Light Green GQP Members Of Congress Stop The Destruction Of Environmental Laws?" Article 0 hatrack May 16 May 16 2 201
Equinor may scrap $2.5 billion Empire Wind project over US delays 0 douglas9 May 16 May 16 1 622
The New Map of Critical Minerals. - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 0 TexasTowelie May 16 May 16 3 267
Sen. Whitehouse Leads Opposition to Donahue Environmental Protection Agency Confirmation - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 May 16 May 16 4 277
Trump administration to audit billions in energy grants awarded under Biden 1 Eugene May 15 May 15 3 246
Woolly mice and "dire wolves" are a distraction from attacks on endangered species, experts caution 2 marmar May 15 May 15 5 219
Scientists hail new 'industrially viable technology' that can squeeze hydrogen from seawater 1 Caribbeans May 15 May 15 2 307
The Cybertruck Was Supposed To Survive The Apocalypse; Can It Survive A Trip To The Grocery Store? 1 hatrack May 14 May 15 6 385
Energy Sec. Whines, Lies Through His Teeth To Congress, Denies Delaying Funding After Months Of Doing Just That 1 hatrack May 15 May 15 8 390
Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shift 2 hunter May 14 May 15 4 330
After Months Of Toxic Algae Bloom Off S. Australia's Coast, 200 Species Killed, Including Sharks, Rays, Octopus 0 hatrack May 15 May 15 7 267
EPA rolls back Biden-era rules against 'forever chemicals' in drinking water - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 May 15 May 15 3 211
River Flows And Reservoir Lows Across UK May Test Or Break All-Time Record Lows As Summer Heat/Drought Start Early 1 hatrack May 14 May 14 3 232
After LA Fires Caused +/- 1/4 TRILLION In Damages, CA Assembly Somehow Just Can't Push "Polluters Pay" Bills For Big Oil 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 1 209
James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - Large Cloud Feedback Confirms High Climate Sensitivity 2 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 14 7 352
Collapsing GA Shrimp Industry Stuck Between Warming-Driven Black Gill Disease, Flood Of Farmed, Imported, Cheaper Shrimp 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 7 379
Plenty Of Pressure Applied By Insurers To Cut Adjusters' Estimate, Or "Claim Reassigned To Someone Who Complies" 2 hatrack May 14 May 14 11 435
Global Financial Regulators Decide That This Is A Good Time To Make Climate Risk Disclosures Voluntary 0 hatrack May 14 May 14 3 240
A chemical in plastics is tied to heart disease deaths 3 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 14 550
To Reinvent What Was Already Invented, Nuclear Engineers Need the Right to Screw Up to Thus Save the World. 0 NNadir May 13 May 13 5 292
China leads hydrogen production and consumption in 2024 at more than 36.5 million tons 2 Caribbeans May 13 May 13 0 256
Facing lawsuit, USDA says it will restore climate change-related webpages 0 Eugene May 13 May 13 10 236
Hydrogen fuel cell trucks roll out across Georgia's roads: Is this a solution that could stick? Or just a detour? 3 Caribbeans May 13 May 13 1 308
Swamp Coolers, Once Effective Across Southwestern States, No Longer Work In Extreme Heat & Growing Humidity 2 hatrack May 13 May 13 8 660
Mercury fuels gold mining in Senegal. And it's poisoning the people who use it 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 13 May 13 2 233
As Pecos River Farmers' Water Deliveries Failed, Oil Companies Used 31,000 Acre-Feet Of River Water For Fracking 1 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 366
"Mass Balance" - Yet Another Greenwashy Attempt To Make "Advanced Recycling" Of Plastic Appear Real 1 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 318
Here's Something You Don't See Often, a Scientific Paper Titled "Hold My Beer..." 0 NNadir May 12 May 12 7 408
Planned AL Data Center Would Be The Size Of 18 Wal-Mart Super Centers, And Local Pols Know/Say Nothing About It 4 hatrack May 11 May 12 13 658

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Can Scientists Harness the Magic of Mushrooms to Clean Up Polluted Landscapes? 2 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 11 363
One woman's mission to help save cheetahs from extinction - PBS NewsHour 3 Rhiannon12866 May 11 May 12 7 330
Industry "Struggling To Understand" Shitstain's Plans To Destroy Energy Star Program, Which They (And Consumers) Support 2 hatrack May 12 May 12 8 385
Bananas Vulnerable To Warming; Cultivation May Become Impossible In 2/3 Of Central/South America By 2080 0 hatrack May 12 May 12 4 224
Seriously, Don't Fuck This Up, Guys: Pittsburgh Voters To Choose Whether To Keep Water Service Public 2 hatrack May 12 May 12 9 383
Pesky Thermodynamics: The Mathematics of Wasting Energy by Storage in Li Batteries. 5 NNadir May 11 May 11 5 514
How Los Alamos National Laboratory Helped Bring Hydrogen Power To Northern New Mexico 0 Caribbeans May 11 May 11 2 345
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.86 ppm 2 NNadir May 11 May 11 4 306
Migration and Sources of Plutonium and Neptunium in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean 0 NNadir May 11 May 11 1 266
LA LNG Port Largest Single Investment In State's History: Also Largest Single Tax Break On Record - $2.8 Billion 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 4 285
What Do Reuters, WP, NYT, Financial Times Have In Common? They're All Paid For "Sponsored Content" By The Oil Industry 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 9 353
Tyson Tried To Market "Low-Carbon Beef", Got Called On Their Greenwashing And Dumped The Campaign 1 hatrack May 11 May 11 3 305
My gf wants me to spend $40k on an electric car 33 paulkienitz May 8 May 11 12 1574
Anti-Government Group Threatening Weather Radar Stations, Because Libtard Weather Control Freedumb Arglebargle Duuhhrr 3 hatrack May 10 May 10 11 446
Not having anyone around who knows the difference between water use and water pressure, 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 10 May 10 6 431
Gosh, That's Too Bad, Florida: Cuts To NOAA Mean Firing Miami-Based Hurricane Scientists And Climate Researchers 8 hatrack May 10 May 10 16 597
Defunding/Destroying NOAA Threatens Fragile Global Capacity To Accurately Measure GHG Trends 1 hatrack May 10 May 10 8 283
Energy Dominance!!! DOE Secy's Company's Stock Value Sliced In Half, Oil Price Below Point Of Profitibility 2 hatrack May 10 May 10 10 415
Nature - Populations Of Washington's Only Native Abalone Down 97% 1997 - 2017; Ocean Acidification Hitting Larvae Hard 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 6 258
Rocky Mountain Snowpack Below 50%; Powell At 31% Of Capacity, Water Agencies In Chaos, Thanks To Shitstain 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 9 395
3 Weeks Until Hurricane Season, FL Residents Still Dealing W. Helen, Debby And Idalia - And That's Just 2023 and 2024 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 2 272
Energy Star Is Voluntary, Is Supported By Industry And Has Saved $.5 Trillion Since Inception, So It Must Be Destroyed 3 hatrack May 9 May 10 17 382
Israel approves national hydrogen pipeline to boost clean energy 1 Caribbeans May 9 May 10 0 247
Babseiosis - A Malaria-Like Disease Spread By Ticks - Spreading Rapidly Through Mid-Atlantic States 8 hatrack May 9 May 9 17 636
This Is What Happens When You Build A Wildlife Pond 5 Uncle Joe May 9 May 9 60 1631
Texas Senate passes bill requiring solar plants to provide power at night 2 Eugene May 9 May 9 8 574
In Shitstain's First 100 Days, Environmental Enforcement Has Essentially Stopped; Zero Actions Against Major Violations 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 5 218
Youngkin Vetoes Two Bills Supporting Solar And Energy Storage, But Don't Forget, He's An "All Of The Above" Energy Guy 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 5 289
Plastics Companies Still Pimping "Advanced Recycling" Though It Has Never Scaled Or Made Economic Sense 1 hatrack May 9 May 9 3 313
60% Of EU Farmland Degraded, 40% In UK; Breakdown Driven At Least In Part By Extreme Weather, Warming 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 9 272

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Multiple Midsummer Butterfly Species Emerging In UK Up To A Month Ahead Of Normal Schedule In Record-Warm Spring 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 251
One Of The Biggest Methane Sources On Earth Isn't A Country Or Company: It's Our Abandoned OIl & Gas Wells & Coal Mines 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 7 294
HyTerra Strikes Natural Hydrogen in Kansas at 96.1%: Is Geologic H2 the Game-Changer? 1 Caribbeans May 8 May 9 2 320
Trump admin ends extreme weather database that has tracked cost of disasters since 1980 2 Eugene May 8 May 8 2 297
Schiff Blasts GOP Efforts to Roll Back Climate Protections in Major Floor Speech - Senator Adam Schiff 0 Rhiannon12866 May 8 May 8 8 256
Norway and Sweden to Cooperate on Development of Lead Cooled Small Nuclear Reactors. 4 NNadir May 5 May 8 4 413
Scorpion Stings Already Spiking In Brazilian Cities; Will Get Worse As Warming And Urban Expansion Continue 2 hatrack May 8 May 8 7 426
San Diego Bay showing signs of improvement after reef balls installed 2 Uncle Joe May 8 May 8 19 683
"Vast Green Expanses Have Turned To Fields Of Dust" As Loggers Flatten Gran Chaco; 370,000 Acres Destroyed In 2024 Alone 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 14 435
"Let Us Walk Blindfolded And Not Gather Any Information" - Shitstain Ends Funding For Ice Data, Science @ NSIDC 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 5 260
Time to Wake Up 298: The 10th Our Oceans Conference - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 May 7 May 7 4 220
On Climate, Governors Enter 'Trench Warfare Mode' 0 Brenda May 7 May 7 3 245
'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms 8 NickB79 May 7 May 7 11 870
April 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm; April 2023 423.31 ppm 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 3 269
Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space 1 NickB79 May 7 May 7 9 518
Five Lakes In UNESCO World Heritage Park In Northern Patagonia Drying Rapidly; Surface Areas Down +/- 52% In 20 Years 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 7 318
UK Govt Confirmed As Funding Geoengineering Projects; Sulfate Aerosol Injections, "Restoring" Vanishing Sea Ice 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 5 343
Driest Spring On Record For Much Of Britain; Drought Next, Unless Record Flooding Of 2012 Repeats Itself 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 3 263
Scientists Project Doubling To Quadrupling Of Clear-Air Turbulance On Routes Along Jet Streams In Next Few Decades 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 356
This Hydrogen Powered Excavator Changes EVERYTHING! 1 Caribbeans May 6 May 6 6 393
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