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Private UK Water Company Threatens To Raise Executive Pay If Gov Limits Bonuses After Decades of Pollution 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 497
Equinor Forced To Abandon Claim Of Storing 1 Million Tons Of CO2/Year Offshore; Actual Total About 10% Of That 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 443
"Sustainability-Linked Loans" - No Disclosure, No Teeth And No Commitment To Spend On Environmental Improvements 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 512
"Fuck Biden" Banners Adorn LA Town Where IRA Funding To Provide Hurricane Repairs Is Now In Limbo 11 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 1807
UK Nuclear Plant Sizewell C cost 'has doubled since 2020 and could near 40bn' 1 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 519
Biden Signs Law Requiring Army Corps To Study Ending Generation At Willamette River Dams To Protect Salmon 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 616
Highest Use Of Fertilizers On Grasslands Cut Flowers Fivefold; Pollinators Dropped By Up To 50% 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 464
TX Now Requires Registration Of Oil Waste Pits, But No Need To Line Pits Or Notify Landowners, So Freedumb Survives 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 502
UK Environment Ministry Having To Fight To Ensure That $13.5 Million In Sewage Cleanup Funds 2B Used For That Purpose 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 319
Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero' 3 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 720
ENOWA and HRS Launch Saudi Arabia's First Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Refueling Station 0 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 523
Fire at the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing prompts evacuation orders. 5 hunter Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 977
LA Residents Returning To The Ruins Face Complex Threats: Lead, Carcinogens Now, Mudslides When The Rains Return 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 548
Shitstain Sold Himself To Oil Majors 4/24. Top 15 Oil Billionaires' Wealth Up 15%, To $308 Billion Since That Meeting 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 584
Hydrogen is transforming a tiny Utah coal town. Could its success hold lessons for similar communities? 6 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 966
US Supreme Court Rejects Big Oil Attacks on Hawaii Climate Lawsuit 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 587
INTERPOL, Germany, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Unite Efforts to Tackle Environmental Crime 4 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 965
USGS releases first-ever map of potential for geologic hydrogen in U.S. 1 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 725
Eco-nomics: A brief history of how the climate crisis unfolded 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 440
Dissolution Rates of Uranium Dioxide in Used Nuclear Fuel in an H2O2/Carbonate System Are Enhanced by Radiation. 0 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 517
As Future Generations Will Need to Live on Our Trash: Recovery of Phosphorous and Fluorine from Phosphogypsum. 1 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 611
2024 CO2 Jump At Mauna Loa Was 3.58 ppm - That's Us Putting 7.6 Billion Tons More CO2 Into The Atmosphere In One Year 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 596
3M Lied For 40 Years, Knowing That Firefighting Foams Contained PFAS; Company Said They Were Harmless, Biodegradable 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 647
Federal Reserve Leaves Global Central Bank Group Created To Study Climate Risks To Financial System 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 410
LA Fire Chief Warned In 2023 Of Lack Of Wildland Fire Defense; Had To Make Do W. Teenage Volunteers 2 Days Each Week 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 637
Greenwashing Lawsuit Against P&G; Charmin Labeled As "Sustainable" Despite Company Sourcing Pulp From Boreal Forests 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 485
At Least $30 Billion In Insured Losses From LA Fires; 2 Outcomes Are Certain: Higher Premiums And Cancelled Coverage 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 701
Humpback Whale Sightings Spike In Waters Around UK; Population Growth Or Search For Declining Food In Warming Ocean 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 360
Texas The National Test Platform For "Compound Disasters" - As Category 1 Beryl Showed When Houston's Grid Failed 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 491
Word Of The Week: "Panzootic" - As In Bird Flu's Capacity As A Species Jumper 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 502

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Yes, A Voluntary, Poorly Benchmarked And Riggable Carbon Market For Plugging Abandoned Oil Wells Will Turn The Tide!! 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 426
Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 582
NOAA withdraws speed rule proposal aimed at protecting endangered whale 0 OnlinePoker Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 424
Oil and gas companies investing in landfills that turn trash into clean fuel - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 519
Do offshore wind farms harm whales? Experts weigh in as Trump labels them 'dangerous' 6 Jim__ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 736
Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 764
CA State-Backed Insurer Warned FAIR Was "One Major Event Away From Insolvency" - And, Well, Here We Are 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 611
Tech Crunch: Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory 2 Dennis Donovan Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 478
Hino (Toyota) Fined $1.6 Billion For Years Of Fraudulent Emissions Data, Smuggling Illegal Engines 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 463
BP Eliminating 7,700 Jobs (5% Of Its Workforce) Because It Made Noises About Greener Energy Sources 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 582
Suriname Hammered By Record Drought; Water Supply, Transportation & Public Health Shutting Down As Rivers Dry Up 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 363
What LA Residents Are Breathing Is Toxic: Mercury, PCBs, Lead From Burned Electronics, Cars & Buildings In The Mix 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 434
Expect Nothing And Worse From Shitstain; It's A Four-Year Big Oil Banquet, And Climate Collapse Doesn't Even Exist 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 429
Rate Of Annual Atmospheric CO2 Increase In 2024 - 3.6 ppm - Was Twice That Needed For Putative 1.5C Goal 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 350
Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 430
Who does the EPA protect? 2 douglas9 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 549
Mitsubishi Drops Plan For 77-Acre Chemical Plant In Lousiana's Cancer Alley Along The Mississippi River 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 574
Author Of "Fire "Weather" - "We Are Going To Have To Let Go Of A Lot Of The 20th Century" 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 778
Climate Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 463
Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss 4 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 825
Meet Your Incoming Energy Secretary - Smugly "Standing By" His Dismissal Of Climate Collapse As 'Hype" 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 599
The Press Makes Sporadic Connections Between Extremes Like LA's Fires And Climate Breakdown - And It's Not Nearly Enough 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 412
'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 515
New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed 3 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1664
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 352
I'm A Climate Scientist - My House In LA Burned Down - I Feel Safe Saying We Are Not Thriving On Our Changing Planet 7 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 30 1508
Republican drafting anti-offshore wind order with Trump 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 529
Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright Testifies at Confirmation Hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 416
SCOTUS Declines To Hear Cases On Energy Company Liability, UT Public Lands, Vineyard Wind, Air Pollution 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 600
Statistia: Annual Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1940-2024 (Handy Detailed Graphic) 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 415

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Despite Advances In Breeding, Science Consensus Grows That "De-Extinction" Is Likely Impossible 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 578
Not That They Would Have Done Much, But World's Largest Banks Eager To Remove Themselves From Climate Commitments 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 431
Oh Goody!! Liz Truss And Nigel Farage Are Going To Be Part Of A New UK Climate Denial Group, Hosted By Heartland 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 419
Biden administration finalizes US crackdown on Chinese vehicles 2 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 669
Glyphosate-Resistant Weed (Italian Rye Grass) Confirmed On UK Farm: First Such Confirmed Discovery 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 511
Could Keir Starmer's AI dream derail his own green energy promise? 0 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 378
Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 907
The Pliocene Returns - Oh Well!! Atmosperic CO2 Content Rose 11% 2014-2023; CH4, Nitrous Oxide Also At New Record Highs 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 654
Planes are dumping ocean water to fight the Los Angeles fires. Here's why using saltwater is typically a last resort 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 900
Canada's #1 And #3 Banks Expected To Abandon Net Zero Banking Alliance; Mealy-Mouthed Voluntary Process Just Too Much 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 500
Nature - Disappearance Of Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica Is Powering Increased Frequency Of Southern Ocean Storms 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 392
In Face Of Firehose Of Lies & Insults, Newsom Invites Shitstain To Visit LA And See For Himself; No Response Yet 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 555
"Good Old Days" Return To MS In The Form Of Hookworm, Roundworm, Tapeworm; Small Survey Shows 38% Infestation Rate 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 742
LA Fires Pose High Smoke Risk; It's Not Just Massive Particulate Pollution, It's Also Toxins From Burned Cars, Buildings 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 427
Trump's pick to lead EPA, Lee Zeldin, was paid tens of thousands to write op-eds criticizing climate policies and ESG 2 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 497
The Author Is Australian, The Sentiment The Same: Rage Among The Young At What Is Happening Before Their Eyes To Earth 4 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 819
Climatologist Peter Kalmus On Democracy Now - On Why He Left, Why Nothing's Changing And Why The World's On Fire 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 14 845
Weather Modeling Showing No Rain In LA Through January; This Rainy Season, 0.16" Of Precipitation In All 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 488
24 Confirmed Dead So Far, With New Estimates Of LA Fire Damage Totals Around $250 - 275 Billion 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 432
China's first ton-level liquid hydrogen unmanned eVTOL aircraft completes test flight 3 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 768
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