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The Orange Pedophile in the White House Finally Takes a Positive Action on the Collapse of the Planetary Atmosphere. 4 NNadir Apr 23 Apr 23 11 1139
Why do some people act on climate change while others stay silent? 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 2 359
98% of all recent environmental ... world's largest meat and dairy companies can be categorized as "greenwashing" ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 8 507
Extreme rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin - this is the future in a warming world 2 marmar Apr 23 Apr 23 7 573
IEA - Global Energy Review 2026 - Technology: Nuclear 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 3 414
IEA - Global Energy Review 2026 - Technology: Solar PV and wind 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 4 431
BOOM: Republican Bill YANKED From Floor in SURPRISE Move - Meidas Touch 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 625
The Scheme #37 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 407
PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl's painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger 4 OKIsItJustMe Apr 22 Apr 22 1 516
Wind Powered Cargo Ships 23 thought crime Apr 21 Apr 22 6 1900
Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla lithium refinery discharges wastewater in South Texas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 10 851
New growth in logged forests inspires photographer's hope - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 22 Apr 22 4 351
In the battle vs. invasive Burmese pythons, Florida turns to possums 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 21 Apr 21 6 639
Some Aspects of the Fuel for the Energy Device with the Lowest Carbon Intensity Known. 0 NNadir Apr 21 Apr 21 0 455
IEA Electricity Price Comparison 2026 Year to Date France and Germany with carbon intensity reports. 4 NNadir Apr 20 Apr 21 1 671
Cities turn streetlights red to protect nocturnal ecosystems - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 Apr 21 16 539
Leaked SCOTUS Memos From 2016 Show Alito & Roberts Never Once Considered Costs Of NOT Regulating GHGs, Toxins 3 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 11 679
China Puts Fully-Electric, Intelligent Containership in Service 4 littlemissmartypants Apr 20 Apr 21 4 454
Worlds first permanent nuclear waste site 1 thought crime Apr 19 Apr 21 7 559
Corpus Christi Projects Emergency Water Restrictions In September; Everyone Busy Drilling More Wells 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 11 809
Rio Grande On Track For Record Low Flows; Elephant Butte Reservoir May Fall To 2% Of Capacity By August 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 10 415
Super Typhoon Sinlaku Sat Over Marianas & Guam For Days w. 185 mph Winds, 2 Months Before Typhoon Season Starts 2 hatrack Apr 20 Apr 21 9 601
If You Care About the Future, Watch This - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 20 Apr 20 8 490
This was a great white shark hotspot. Then they mysteriously vanished 1 marmar Apr 20 Apr 20 6 676
Interior Emergency Plan - Cut Glen Canyon Releases To Legal Minimum, Drain Up To 1/3 of Flaming Gorge Reservoir 1 hatrack Apr 20 Apr 20 5 467
"Plastic Processing" Plant In Ohio Regularly Belches Smoke, Flames & Fumes; Company Wants To Build A Second Plant In AZ 0 hatrack Apr 20 Apr 20 4 459
New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power 11 Caribbeans Apr 18 Apr 20 4 1200
Germany's May Electricity Prices Surge to Four Times that of France. 5 NNadir Apr 19 Apr 20 8 872
TX Oil Companies Avoiding Action On 11,000+ Stripper/Orphan Wells Producing Little Oil, Much Pollution 1 hatrack Apr 19 Apr 19 8 492
Extensive faults beneath Nevada nuclear lab raise unanswered earthquake risks 1 Caribbeans Apr 19 Apr 19 5 512

Environment & Energy Continued...

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We're SAVED!!! Jet fuel from cellulose. 9 NNadir Apr 19 Apr 19 11 1576
Climate Liars (Heartland, Steven Milloy) Hate MAHA And RFK Jr. Even More Than They Hate Liberals And Regulations 0 hatrack Apr 19 Apr 19 4 467
Fusion power may never be cost-competitive with renewables, study warns 0 thought crime Apr 19 Apr 19 6 475
Iran war energy shocks drive nuclear power plans in hard-hit Asia and Africa - Associated Press 2 TexasTowelie Apr 17 Apr 19 7 548
Countries with the most coal plants in the world. 1 NNadir Apr 18 Apr 19 4 619
Real world numbers from the grand renewable energy experiment are not promising. 5 hunter Apr 18 Apr 19 6 882
"Wi-fi" but for energy? COOL! 10 buzzycrumbhunger Apr 18 Apr 19 13 1135
Even Long-Term Gas Shock Won't Do Much For EV Sales, Given High-End Model Glut, No Federal Incentives 8 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 18 8 1053
Why birds and foxes could act as early warning systems of antibiotic resistance across ecosystems 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 18 Apr 18 5 393
Morocco: 0 applegrove Apr 18 Apr 18 14 418
As the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl approaches, I will no longer be calling it "Chernobyl" in my writings. 0 NNadir Apr 18 Apr 18 7 592
Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind "boom?" 2 NNadir Apr 17 Apr 18 6 969
Wildlife crossings save animal lives: 4 applegrove Apr 17 Apr 17 12 611
China fast-tracks hydrogen strategy to 'scale-up' phase in high-stakes energy transition 5 Caribbeans Apr 17 Apr 17 1 881
March heat wave in western North America placed in historical perspective: 0 applegrove Apr 17 Apr 17 9 459
So Many Climate Delay Narratives, So Vanishingly Little Time . . . . 2 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 6 627
Trump Order Strips Protection From Boundary Waters Wilderness So Mining Can Begin, Because Fuck Earth 18 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 52 2830
As Arctic Soils Thaw, Releases Of Iron And Other Metals Wiping Out Life In Entire Rivers And Streams 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 13 544
Speaking of Lake Powell . . . 5 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 17 13 639
CenterPoint urged federal government not to reissue emergency order on Warrick County coal plant, letter shows 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 3 335
Recent Advances in Cladding Material Extraction from Fuels in Nuclear Fuel Cycles 0 NNadir Apr 16 Apr 16 2 648
Jet Fuel Crisis - Joe Blogs 3 TexasTowelie Apr 16 Apr 16 3 515
San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It's Selling It 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 3 784
Kenya Sentences Chinese Man To 1-Year Prison Term For Smuggling . . . Ants? 6 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 1 577
8 April Update: CO River Mainstem Flows Projected At 38% Of Normal For 2026; Yampa River 36%; San Juan River 26% 2 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 6 499
4/14/26 Drought Monitor - 57.8% Of Lower 48 In Level 2-4 Drought Conditions 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 338
Study: "Almost Certain" Collapse Of Atlantic Conveyer By 2100, And This Model Excludes Greenland Ice Loss 11 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 44 2142
USBR May Release Up To 1 Million Acre-Feet To Prop Up Powell, Lion's Share From Flaming Gorge 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 6 471
Iowa Law Shields CAFOs, Ethanol Plants From Lawsuits Over GHG Emissions - Lawsuits That Do Not Exist 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 1 449
Maine Bill Blocks Construction Of Data Centers Of More Than 20 MW Capacity Until October 2027 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 370

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Great Britain households to be urged to use MORE power this summer as renewables soar 1 Caribbeans Apr 16 Apr 16 5 594
Biologists are racing to save America's freshwater mussels 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 15 Apr 15 10 369
War in Iran could accelerate global energy transition - FRANCE 24 6 TexasTowelie Apr 14 Apr 15 8 911
James Hansen et al -- Super-Duper El Nino 1 OKIsItJustMe Apr 15 Apr 15 14 672
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.87 ppm 2 NNadir Apr 12 Apr 15 6 710
Elon Musk's xAI Sued by NAACP Over Memphis Data Center 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 10 492
IMF And IEA Now Projecting Global Recession From Shitstain's War Of Choice, Hormuz Blockade 2 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 4 537
33 Out Of 58 Butterfly Species Native To The UK In Decline; Along W. Habitat Loss, Warming Taking Its Toll 0 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 3 432
FEMA Employees "Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop" As DHS Sec. Kickass T. Horsefucker Takes The Reins 0 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 8 619
ExxonMobil And Subsidiaries Face Lawsuit For $200 Million Fraud Scheme In NM To Dump "Orphan Wells" 0 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 7 573
World's largest offshore wind farm is getting plugged in 1 Caribbeans Apr 14 Apr 15 6 625
'A Lot Of Americans Aren't Sold On This Whole Car-Centric Life Thing After All' 7 sop Apr 11 Apr 13 11 1069
Don't mention the climate: Trump creates 'beyond absurd' situation at global finance talks 1 muriel_volestrangler Apr 13 Apr 13 8 609
Improved efficiency of selective photoionization of palladium isotopes via autoionizing Rydberg states. 6 NNadir Apr 12 Apr 13 5 977
China's Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 3 635
When Complete, Lake Charles LNG Terminal Will Produce More GHGs Than Any Terminal In The Country 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 8 677
TX Giving $3.2 Billion In Sales Tax Exemptions In Next 2 Years To Datacenters - And That's Likely A "Vast Underestimate" 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 4 481
Datacenter Opposition Growing In Georgia; Land Impacts, Water Pollution, Electricity Costs Primary Resident Worries 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 6 455
TX Railroad Commission Member Facing Hard-Right Challenger. Why? He Pushed To (Slightly) Update Oil Waste Rules 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 2 441
As E15 Gas Becomes More Common, Remember That It's Terrible For These Engines 19 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 12 Apr 12 10 1703
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