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Nearly All US Coal Power Plants Could Have Met Pollution Rules For Toxic Metals; Shitstain's EPA Cut Those Rules Anyway 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 695
Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 1002
Colorado River Compact In Tatters, Interior Shows That It Will Barely Intervene (If At All) In Fractious 7-State Talks 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 571
More Than A Year Later, No Trace Of $400 Million In USDA Grant To Improve Irrigation Efficiency For AZ Farmers 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 576
Study: Southern Right Whales Shift Reproduction; Lack Of Food Means 1 Calf Every 4 Years, Not 3 Years 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 457
Emperor Penguins Face Death From Hypothermia During Molt As Sea Ice Disintegrates 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 636
"Abysmal Snowpack" Conditions In Rocky Mountain States; Even Average Seasonal Totals Likely Out Of Reach 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 779
For Decades Oil Majors Preempted Local Climate Lawsuits W. Clean Air Act; Now w. End Of Endangerment Finding, They Can't 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 616
Survey Of 8,000 Tropical Plant Species Across Continents Shows Flowering Times Now Months Early & Late 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 511
One In Five Marine Products Tied To Fraud - On Species ID, "Fresh", Wild-Caught vs. Farmed, Produced Through Slave Labor 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 618
Shocked, Shocked: Epstein Class Of Ultrawealthy Among Top Purveyors Of Climate Denial, Ecofascism 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 769
"Staggering" Loss Of N. Hemisphere Marine BIomass: 7.2% Of Fish Populations Per 0.1C Warming Per Decade 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 623
Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world's reefs 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 496
This is very wonky so I'm putting it here rather than General Discussion. 5 flashman13 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 17 3445
US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: 'I'm not for sale' 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1016
U.S. Supreme Court will hear landmark Boulder climate case against oil companies 1 evemac Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 515
Analysis by Reuters shows AI companies are exaggerating claims about reducing water usage 2 highplainsdem Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 608
Channel 4's 4Creative exposes 'The Sick Truth Behind Britain's Sewage Scandal' with bold new fountain installation 3 highplainsdem Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 665
The Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar and Renewables Exposed - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 585
Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Depends On "Carbon Capture"; Notes Show His Gov Knows Little Of Its Unreality 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 706
Global Warming Bringing "Synchronized Fire Weather" To Multiple Regions Across Earth, Simultaneously And Quickly 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 721
The nation's largest public utility is going back to coal -- with almost no input from the public 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 889
Feds propose opening millions of acres of western Oregon forests to 1960s logging levels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 536
Parts Of 3 Australian States Bracing For A Year's Worth Of Rain In One Week From Lingering Monsoon Low 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 569
Acid Wastewater, Algae Blooms, Fishery Closures, Sonic Booms - FL Pays The Price For Launching Penis Rockets, Satellites 6 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 970
295,000+ Acres Burned In SW Kansas So Far; Windy Fire Weather Returning, Though Not As Severe As 1st Round 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 698
Results Of Destroying The Endangerment Finding For Greenhouse Gases "Cannot Be Overstated" 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 570
RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 799
New Airborne Wind Turbine 0 thought crime Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 697
Nature Review: The Dark Side of "Green" Technology. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 880

Environment & Energy Continued...

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NOAA - Near-Earth Space Could Host 60,000 Satellites By 2040; Particles From Reentries Add 1.5C To Upper Atmosphere Temp 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 646
Ohio Anti-Renewable Bill Would Likely Exclude Coal Generation, Since It Requires Minimum Capacity Factor of 50% 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 663
Trump touts climate savings but new rule set to push up US prices 2 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 638
NYT: He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking. 4 DBoon Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 951
Europe Today: Drowning In Winter, Withering In Summer And Clueless On Scale And Impact Of Impending Climate Collapse 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 796
Shitstain Rolls Back Mercury Limits For Coal Power Plants; 68 Plants Already Got Exemptions By Emailing Their Requests 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 694
Despite court order, a critical FEMA program remains frozen 0 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 539
EPA rollbacks on pollution limits could drive up health care costs, advocates warn - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 408
The epigraph... 1 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 671
W/O Natural Predators, UK Deer Preventing Forest Regrowth; Gov Will Now Support Culls By Landowners 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 799
Krakow Was Poland's Smog Capital; After Bans On Coal And Wood In Home Heating, 6,000 Lives Saved In 10 Yrs 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 582
Even In A "Sunburnt Country", Australia Reeling From This Summer's Record Heat And Fire Season 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 537
TVA Had Been An Independent Agency For Decades; Now, They're Blowing Trump And Embracing More Coal 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 524
Is Germany (Quietly) Rejecting the Green Deal? - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 2 TexasTowelie Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 715
Boring Old Local Citizen Action Stops (At Least For Now) Planned Datacenter In Suburban LA Community 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 731
No Snowpack, No Runoff Coming, And New Mexico Legislature Faceplants - Again - In Attempt To Limit GHG Emissions 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 588
MPs Call For End To $2 Million/Day Subsidy For Drax Power Plant; It's "Sustainable", You See, Because Wood Pellets . . . 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 611
Avg. Of Ideal Fire Weather Days - Hot, Dry And Windy - Has Tripled Globally In 45 Years; 12X Increase In S. America 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 410
EU Subsidies For Beef & Lamb Are 580X Greater Than Those For Legumes; For Pork, +/- 240X More 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 421
An Open Sourced Chemical Review on the Removal of Carbon Dioxide Via Seawater. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 553
European Scientific Advisory Board Urges Member Nations To Prepare For 3C Of Warming By 2100 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 618
Glen Canyon Dam Confonts Potential Loss Of Generating Capacity, Damage To River Outlet Works As Drought Continues 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 759
TX Sues Dow For "Habitual Non-Compliance"; Spoiler - It's A Way For The Company To Avoid A Far Harsher Citizen Lawsuit 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 878
Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 616
Origins of 'gravity hole' over Antarctica finally unveiled 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 36 1445
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica's near-freezing deep 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 20 1081
Top Five Coffee-Growing Countries Experienced An Average Of 57 Days Of Crop-Damaging Heat/Year From 2021 Through 2025 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 636
Thanks To Global Warming, "Excruciatingly Painful" Chikunyungya Can Now Be Transmitted By Mosquitoes In Most Of Europe 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 572
AI Greenwashing - Plenty Of Unsupported Claims, Along With Conflation Of Traditional With Massive Generative AI 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 540
Greenland sled dog champion fears for his culture as climate change melts the ice 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 399

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Louisiana bets big on 'blue ammonia.' Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the co 1 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 843
US Agency Pulls Climate From Judges' Manual 0 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 609
Another Reason To Dislike Invasive Kudzu: It's A Superb Ladder Fuel, Turning Ground Fires Into Crown Fires 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 732
Ontario Secures Agreement to Advance World's Largest Nuclear Generating Station 6 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 836
Plastics Mfg Pitched For Years As "Solution" To Appalachia Fracked Gas Glut ; Now, Factories Closing, Oil Majors Leaving 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 765
Air pollution increases physical disability progression in older adults 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 773
Shocked, Shocked: Oil Industry And Government Alike Knew For Decades That Injecting Drilling Waste Would Be Disastrous 5 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 29 1288
Trump Encourages World To Bully Pacific Island Nation Of Vanuatu For Sponsoring A UN Climate Resolution 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 628
World's rarest primate has bounced back from brink of extinction 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 635
Confinement Effects on Moisture-Swing Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 728
Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 530
Project 2025 and the EPA 2 UpInArms Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 614
Trump Pushes ENTIRE WORLD Towards DISASTER with FATAL MOVE - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 588
States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus 5 nitpicked Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 789
France slashes renewable energy targets, expands nuclear power with new law. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 740
Coastal wetland deposition of cathode metals from the world's largest lithium-ion battery fire 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 847
A 'deadly' move: The EPA repeals landmark climate finding - Velshi - MS NOW 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 518
You Don't Say!! Flawed Economic Models Mean Climate Collapse Could Also Collapse Global Economy 5 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 941
Beyond Insane - Someone Finally Did The Arithmetic On The Absurdity Of Powering Direct Air Capture Of Carbon Dioxide 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 1034
134 Staffers Eliminated At National Renewable Energy Lab In Golden, CO 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 700
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