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Waahhh!!! WY State Rep Whines About Shitstain's Cuts To The Forest Service, Because He Just Cares. So. Much. 4 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 10 587
Bill McKibben on Climate Activism in the Age of Trump 2.0 2 Brenda Mar 4 Mar 4 5 347
"The Problem Is That Capitalism, As A Way Of LIfe, Does Its Best To Force Us To Be Greedy" 4 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 11 504
Shocked, Shocked!! All 6 Of America's Biggest Banks Dump Climate Commitments 1 hatrack Mar 4 Mar 4 9 595
Canada's Bruce 4 Nuclear Reactor Defuelled in Record Time. 0 NNadir Mar 4 Mar 4 5 469
Cabinet moves to reverse Italy's anti-nuclear stance. 0 NNadir Mar 4 Mar 4 3 396
Congress Passes Bill To Eliminate Fines For Methane Leaks; Shitstain Will Sign It Into Law 5 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 8 559
Hadn't ever seen this before, but this says it all ... 0 eppur_se_muova Mar 3 Mar 3 10 518
A surge in bee deaths is hurting Texas beekeepers -- and could affect the price of produce 0 douglas9 Mar 3 Mar 3 9 321
Not Enough For Shitstain To End OSHA Rulemaking On Heat Safety; Andy Biggs' Bill Aims To Abolish OSHA 2 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 7 376
Study - Antarctic Circumpolar Current On Track For 20% Slowdown By 2050 Under High-Emission Scenario 1 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 8 322
Leonard Leo-Funded Hack Tank Attacks Climate Lawsuits, Manages To Completely Miss Their Point In The Process 0 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 5 305
Oops!! Occidental Petroleum CEO Says Out Loud What "Carbon Capture" Was Always All About - Pumping More Oil 0 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 8 333
Well, Good Fucking Luck W. That In Louisiana: Grassroots Opposition To "Carbon Capture" Plans Growing 0 hatrack Mar 3 Mar 3 4 390
Oh Well!! SC Governor Declares State Of Emergency Because Of Wildfires - Sorry About FEMA, Dude! 8 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 12 1521
Another Example Of The "Just Plant Trees!" Fallacy; Pine Monoculture In Nepal Erased Native Plants, Dried Up Springs 3 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 8 405
Study: Tar Sands Producers' Plans For "Carbon Capture" Impossible w/o 10s Of Billions In Continuous Gov Subsidies 0 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 5 299
A Complex Network Of Business And Lies: How The Global PR Busines Protects Earth's Most Destructive Industry 0 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 8 373
50 Years Ago, Nepal Adopted Eucalyptus As Fast-Growing Firewood Source; It Became An Agricultural Disaster 0 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 7 361
Summer In Australia 2024-25 2nd Hottest On Record; 1.89C Over Baseline & Impossible w/o Anthropogenic Warming 0 hatrack Mar 2 Mar 2 4 270
Two Days After Shooting His Mouth Off, RFK Jr. Rushing A Whole 2,000 MMR Vaccines To TX Outbreak 4 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 2 4 511
There Are No Climate Havens, As Residents Of Asheville, Duluth, Central Wisconsin, Vermont And Portland Have Discovered 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 11 456
Largest Wildfire In 30 Years Burns 3,000 Acres In Northern Japan; 0.1" Of Rain In Area Of Fire In February 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 2 249
JP Morgan's "Sustinable" Investments Include More Than $250 Million In Global Mining Giant Glencore 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 3 306
As Of Yesterday, Six Named Cyclones Were Moving - Simultaneously - Across Southern Hemisphere Oceans 0 hatrack Mar 1 Mar 1 11 369
Trump's National Park Agenda: Firing Rangers and Fast-Tracking Oil Drilling 5 niyad Mar 1 Mar 1 9 445
'A powder keg': Lawsuit claims TX co knowingly built dangerous battery plant at Moss Landing leading to major toxic fire 1 Caribbeans Feb 28 Mar 1 3 434
Local residents outraged by new plans for massive area teeming with life: 'He's fixated' 13 Judi Lynn Feb 28 Mar 1 60 2576
AP: New stove that plugs into a normal wall outlet could be major gain for health and the climate 10 OKIsItJustMe Feb 28 Mar 1 12 746
🌈 Hawai'i Statewide Energy Flowcharts! Love 'em. 🌺 2 CoopersDad Feb 27 Feb 28 3 398

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Imagine That! More Than Half The Jury In ND Greenpeace Pipeline Trial Have Direct Ties To Oil & Gas Industry 6 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 525
Market conditions caused natural gas rates to increase 128% since December 15 SleeplessinSoCal Feb 25 Feb 28 3 914
Sinking Island Nation Of Nauru Unveils Trump-esque Plan To Sell Citizenships, Ostensibly To Pay To Relocate Its Citizens 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 354
UK Government Boosts Its Climate Commitment W. Support Of New Runways At Heathrow AND Gatwick Airports 0 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 2 295
Nearly 10% Of Planet's Oceans Hit Record High Temps In 2023-24; Add-On Impacts, Especially Storms, Cost Billions 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 299
Biodiversity Convention Completes Tepid Agreement; Meanwhile, It's 2025 & Global Wildlife #s Have Fallen 70% In 50 Yrs 0 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 3 244
EPA backtracks on Trump comment about cutting staff by 65% but says major spending cuts are coming 0 Eugene Feb 28 Feb 28 1 259
Sen. Whitehouse Calls Out Republicans' "Shameful" Repeal of Methane Emissions Regulation -,Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Feb 27 Feb 28 8 335
Kind of old, Dec 19, but may be of interest: Orlando aerospace facility lithium powder fire 0 Beringia Feb 27 Feb 27 2 313
Scientists' stunning observation of hybrid 'grolar' bear sparks concern: 'Ill-suited to adapt' 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 27 Feb 27 13 567
H5N1: 160 Million+ Wild/Domestic Birds Sick, Dead Or Culled Since Outbreak Began; Warming Also Powering Epidemic 5 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 9 498
Luxury home at risk of tumbling into Cape Cod Bay over removal dispute is demolished 10 FakeNoose Feb 27 Feb 27 9 759
2/25/25 Drought Monitor: Level 3-4 Drought Reaches From San Diego To S-Central TX; Northern Plains Drying Fast 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 7 347
In Addition To TX/NM Outbreak, Three Cases Of Measles Confirmed In New Jersey; All Three Unvaccinated 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 11 473
BP Abandoned Plans For An Energy Transition, Because The Energy Transition Wasn't Happening Fast Enough 2 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 1 337
Tim Kaine Calls Toddler-In-Chief Out For His Bullshit "Energy Emergency" Declaration; Senate Resolution Fails, Of Course 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 13 583
Venezuela's Last Glacier Disappeared In 2024; Colombia Likely Next, Though Ice Will Take A Few Decades To Vanish 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 4 316
"Payback Time for Big Oil Billionaires:" Sen. Whitehouse Slams Trump's "Energy Emergency" - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 6 Rhiannon12866 Feb 26 Feb 26 8 506
Fires Rage In Argentinian Patagonia As Millei Cuts Funding, Targets Indigenous Groups For "Arson" 3 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 332
EPA chief eyes 65% workforce reduction, Trump says 0 Eugene Feb 26 Feb 26 3 347
'Fishing boat for energy' will make hydrogen as it sails 0 Caribbeans Feb 26 Feb 26 4 396
Brazil Unveils World's First Ethanol-to-Hydrogen Station 0 Caribbeans Feb 26 Feb 26 3 358
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate 0 cbabe Feb 26 Feb 26 11 379
A Ruthless New Predator Is Moving Into the Arctic--And Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm 5 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 33 1811
Tool Monkeys!! Fuck Yeah!! BP Announces Plan To Increase Oil Ouput To 2.3-2.5 Million Barrels/Day By 2030 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 2 391
Study: Earth's Plants And Soils' Ability To Absorb CO2 Has Been Declining Since 2008, Averaging .25% Per Year 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 277
Shocked, Shocked!! EPA & CDC Websites Tracking Pollution Go Dark; Had Been Used To Monitor Grok, SpaceX Operations 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 2 312
Despite Expectations Of 10-Fold Increase In Mileage, Shitstain Rolls Back CO2 Pipeline Rules Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 4 293
Melting glaciers threaten global water security 1 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 6 356
Massive new source of leaking methane gas emissions discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 8 515

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A paper with a sort of scary title: Adaptive Mitigation of Warming-Induced Food Crisis and Nitrogen Pollution 0 NNadir Feb 26 Feb 26 2 328
Milestone for BMW Group transport logistics: Full speed ahead with the first hydrogen trucks 1 Caribbeans Feb 25 Feb 26 0 360
Kellogg's Unveils UK's First Hydrogen-Powered Cereal Production 2 Caribbeans Feb 25 Feb 25 1 349
Greenpeace says its future is threatened by Texas pipeline company's lawsuit 2 TexasTowelie Feb 25 Feb 25 2 367
University Of Exeter Actuarial Study; w/o Huge Emission Cuts, Half Of Global GDP Will Go Away By 2070 3 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 7 409
W. Shitstain 2.0 Up And Running, US Officials No-Shows Even For Routine Climate/Environment Meetings @ UN And Elsewhere 1 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 8 405
UN Biodiversity Talks Open In Rome, Assuming Anyone's Going: Ministerial-Level Attendees Largely MIA 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 6 252
Central Chile's Mediteranean Forests In Trouble; Drought, Fire And Warming Threaten 40% w. Near-Term Collapse 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 5 261
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm (an old story that's gotten worse) 4 progree Feb 24 Feb 24 10 583
Shocked, Shocked!! BP Abandoning 2030 Renewable Goals - Back To Oil & Gas, Investors Will Hear This Week 1 hatrack Feb 24 Feb 24 6 379
Vehicle Brake Dust Could Be More Harmful Than Diesel Exhaust to Your Lungs 3 Judi Lynn Feb 24 Feb 24 4 364
Komatsu Begins Proof-of-Concept Tests for World's First Hydrogen-Powered Large Dump Truck 0 Caribbeans Feb 24 Feb 24 3 298
South Korea confirms need for new nuclear reactors 2 NNadir Feb 22 Feb 24 2 339
Two short-beaked dolphins spotted in East River, New York 4 Beringia Feb 24 Feb 24 12 397
111F In Rio - 31F Over February Averages; Brazil's 2nd- Largest City Experiencing One Of Its Driest Februaries On Record 0 hatrack Feb 24 Feb 24 5 272
Science In The National Park System Taking A Hit From Employee Firings 0 Judi Lynn Feb 24 Feb 24 8 293
The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa Stretches Further and Deeper into 2025. 2 NNadir Feb 23 Feb 23 5 458
Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready? 0 cbabe Feb 23 Feb 23 9 615
1 Week Since Disastrous WV Flood; 94% Of State's Communities At High Risk Of Flooding 2 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 3 457
2024 Houston Storm Showed That Skyscrapers Built To Withstand Hurricanes Highly Vulnerable To Derechos 1 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 4 855
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