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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 121526
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 107827
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 4 OnlinePoker 2 hrs ago 44 min ago 3 172
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler 2 hrs ago 1 hr ago 4 134
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 2 119
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack 9 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 7 254
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 1 Jilly_in_VA 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 3 141
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Monday 4 hrs ago 6 248
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Tuesday 5 hrs ago 13 315
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir 10 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 0 187
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 1 Rhiannon12866 13 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 3 182
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 3 185
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 8 361
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday Yesterday 2 194
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Yesterday Yesterday 10 266
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday Yesterday 4 167
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 2 190
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 11 215
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Tuesday Yesterday 8 232
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 262
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 5 248
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Tuesday Tuesday 7 379
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Saturday Tuesday 14 355
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Monday Monday 5 212
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 321
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Monday Monday 3 207
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Monday Monday 3 240
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Monday Monday 3 164
Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 247
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 7 231

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Sunday Sunday 10 256
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 16 407
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Thursday Sunday 3 312
I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 316
NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 305
"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 245
Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Saturday Saturday 14 348
Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 4 297
Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 2 179
As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall 0 douglas9 Friday Friday 10 196
Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Thursday Friday 13 286
Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Friday Friday 13 308
Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Friday Friday 12 320
Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 266
National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Friday Friday 8 277
188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Friday Friday 4 287
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2 Thursday 6 331
As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 245
How Strange! Electricity Prices In California Substantially Higher From Investor-Owned Utilites Than From Public Ones! 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 375
Nearly 70% Of New England In Level 2 Or 3 Drought As Flash Droughts Become More Common, Faster 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 367
Companies Estimated Their Toxic Output For Decades; Biden Required Monitoring, But Now That's Gone (Of Course) 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 180
My Governor to be speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Nov 5 Nov 5 7 251
The Lancet - One Person Dies From Extreme Heat Every Minute; Heat Death Rate Up 23% Since 1990s 1 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 8 339
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 1 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 15 368
2018-23: 1.9 Million Home Insurance Policies Went Away; In 2021 & 2022, 18 LA & FL Insurance Companies Insolvent 1 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 7 316
Flyborne Kala-Azar, Fatal If Untreated, On Brink Of Becoming Endemic In Kenya - Thanks In Part To Destruction Of USAID 0 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 15 321
Inequities from the Embedded Plastic Flow and Carbon Footprint Transfers in International Trade 0 NNadir Nov 4 Nov 4 3 214
Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme 2 OnlinePoker Nov 4 Nov 4 8 316
US strikes $80 billion deal for new nuclear power plants (Reuters) 2 eppur_se_muova Nov 4 Nov 4 5 366
Trump Admin threatens Europeans over green shipping rules: 3 applegrove Nov 3 Nov 4 7 329

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Claim: UK Regulator Lets Water Firms Charge Customers Twice To Cover Companies' Failure To Clean Up Their Acts 0 hatrack Nov 4 Nov 4 2 217
"This Is Absurd" - 3% Of International Climate Aid Helps Move People Away From Polluting Industries 0 hatrack Nov 4 Nov 4 4 266
Ecuador Plans to Host a US Military Base in the Galapagos Islands to Fight Drug Trafficking 8 douglas9 Nov 3 Nov 4 7 376
New Wet-Fart Funding From DOE: $100 Million To "Modernize" Coal Plants - A Sliver Of What Serious Plan Would Cost 0 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 4 227
Brazil to blast channel in Amazon river to increase shipping - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Nov 3 Nov 3 6 272
The American Southwest, a film by Ben Masters 4 Beringia Nov 2 Nov 3 7 369
Alabama Power Customers Paid More Than Any Customers In US In 2024; For Very Poor, 1/4 Of Income For Electricity 2 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 7 354
The NPS Had An Employee Whose Job it Was To Seal Leaky Oil Wells In National Parks - Now He's Been Fired 1 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 14 367
For 20 Years, ExxonMobil Paid Climate Liars To Weaken Support For Climate Action Across Latin America 0 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 5 266
Black vultures attack and kill cattle. Climate change is one reason they're spreading north 2 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 2 4 345
Bolivia's Cerro Rico Beginning To Collapse; After Centuries Of Silver Mining, It's Riddled With Tunnels 2 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 9 457
Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service 2 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 2 10 476
A note on the scale of CO2 emissions connected with steel manufacture. 0 NNadir Nov 2 Nov 2 3 261
At Least 27 Rare Earth Mines Operating In Laos; Possible Threat To Multiple River Basins, But Hard Data Lacking 0 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 4 268
Per Shitstain Inc., Alaska Is "Open For Business" But Nobody's Buying; State Agency Sole New Oil Leaseholder 0 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 11 361
4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 3 hatrack Oct 31 Nov 1 15 372
CSX Derailment Sends 4,000 Gallons Of Diesel & 4,000 Tons Of Coal Into Remote Chickahominy River Wetlands 2 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 11 410
What Does Alberta's Oil Wealth Pay For? Not Education - Alberta Is Dead Last In Per-Pupil Spending Among Provinces 4 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 4 356
Italian Chemical Plant Poisoned Water W. PFAS; After Bankruptcy, It Closed - And Now Operates In India 0 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 6 335
Emergency DOE Order To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Has Cost $80 Million Since May - Customers Across MISO Will Pay 1 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 7 310
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