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Cross post from the NJ forum: New Jersey Declares State of Emergency After April Freeze Wipes Out $300M in Crops. 4 NNadir Friday Friday 8 826

ArcelorMittal to pay record Canada Fisheries Act fine 0 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 2 314

Holtec and Rwanda advance plans to deploy SMR-300 nuclear reactors. 0 NNadir Friday Friday 2 431

Electricity Generation from Solar Could Exceed Coal in ERCOT for the First Time in 2026 11 mahatmakanejeeves May 20 Friday 6 729

'Seed Transfer Zones' will help restore Brazil's degraded land 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 1 240

Oops!! Shitstain's Big Oil Plans For Gulf Of Mexico, California, Would Cut Area Available For Military Exercises 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 392

Trump's Energy War Causes Affordability Crisis For Millions of Working Americans - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 3 289

In my writings here, I will no longer refer to methane, the climate heating driving gas, as "natural gas." 0 NNadir Friday Friday 3 300

How Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 15 483

University of Alberta chemist turns ocean water into an abundant hydrogen source 4 Caribbeans May 21 Friday 6 423

Television news coverage of climate policy is limited and polarized in the US 1 OKIsItJustMe May 21 Friday 5 342

NC Beachfront Property Owners Get $50 Million In State Money To Dump More Sand, "Save" Their Stupid Fucking Homes 9 hatrack May 21 May 21 10 634

Colombia's climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 2 468

X-post: UN backs world court climate opinion; U.S. among few to oppose 1 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 1 447

International Energy Agency video: How the Energy Landscape Changed Last Year 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 1 280

The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 21 May 21 8 738

Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits 6 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 448

Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs 7 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 8 766

Indian city records 48.2C temperature as sizzling heatwave empties roads 2 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 415

Scientists map which genes are active in a developing seed to build hardier crops 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 5 277

England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 6 283

Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972 5 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 5 443

Massive northeast Montana dust storm raises fears of another Dust Bowl era 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 6 451

The Simple Truth: Climate Change is Real - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 May 21 May 21 4 302

IEA: Global EV Outlook 2026 - Emerging battery chemistry and designs 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 2 439

Close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as countries and consumers respond to energy crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 742

Young Americans demand court halt Trump's biggest rollbacks of pollution protections 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 7 360

A gray wolf entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in a century 4 Beringia May 20 May 20 17 587

China is cutting emissions even faster than promised and may already have peaked, study shows 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 486

Extreme weather events threaten river ecosystems 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 4 311

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 303

White hydrogen discovered in billion-year-old Canadian Shield rock points to potential new energy source 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 555

IEA: Net Zero Emissions by 2050 - Acting now to limit overshoot 6 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 612

The UK Is Built For A Climate That No Longer Exists; Heatwaves At/Above 40C Will Span The Country By 2050 1 hatrack May 20 May 20 6 485

BC Ex-Premier Drops Truth Bomb: "We've Spent Billions To Convince Ourselves Carbon Capture Works. It Doesn't Work". 2 hatrack May 20 May 20 10 548

After Trump Killed Rebates, EPA Now Cites Falling EV Sales As Reason To "Reconsider" (i.e. Kill) Tier 4 Air Standards 2 hatrack May 19 May 20 7 432

South Africa's CHARGE launches off-grid EV stations on Johannesburg-Durban corridor 3 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 20 4 412

Appeals Court Rules That Suit Against Alabama Power Over 600 Acres Of Coal Waste, Groundwater Poisoning To Proceed 0 hatrack May 20 May 20 7 342

Research led by a Royal Holloway academic finds the 50 questions that could protect a vital ecosystem found across...globe 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 276

South Africa's $5.8bn green hydrogen-ammonia project advancing 1 Caribbeans May 19 May 19 3 358

Why Fears Are Growing Over the Fate of a Key Atlantic Current (AMOC) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 14 529

'Foolish' CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn 1 Eugene May 19 May 19 2 318

Warming Accelerates Ecological State Shift Along Maine Coast 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 8 333

Extreme Weather Events Accelerating Tidal Wetland Loss 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 274

Hope can inspire climate creativity for action according to new study 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 287

Climate report says world won't get as hot as feared but will pass warming limit 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 7 410

"Lies", "Unbelievable", "Alternative Reality" All Available In 35-page TVA Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks 1 hatrack May 19 May 19 8 461

Sinton, TX Fighting Corpus Christi Groundwater Plan, Potentially Because It Wants A Data Center Of Its Own 1 hatrack May 19 May 19 5 461

For N. American Beekeepers, Swarming Season Started Nearly 3 Weeks Earlier Than In 2025 (After Record Dieoff) 0 hatrack May 19 May 19 5 384

Australia's Federal Biodiversity Funding Falling To 0.04% Of Budget; "Nature Markets" Flop, W. 1 Project Listed 0 hatrack May 19 May 19 2 286

Coal Makes a Comeback, Fueled by War in the Middle East 4 question everything May 19 May 19 4 493

EPA to rescind bans on 4 forever chemicals in drinking water. 3 applegrove May 18 May 18 15 504

Go Pakistan: 1 applegrove May 18 May 18 19 447

Monash University Develops New Membrane To Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Efficiency At High Temperatures In EVs 2 OKIsItJustMe May 18 May 18 2 339

xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 1 OKIsItJustMe May 12 May 18 4 399

Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts 2 OKIsItJustMe May 18 May 18 4 322

China's solar exports jump 60% on the year in April 1 OKIsItJustMe May 18 May 18 4 323

Access to NOAA's world-renowned Mauna Loa Observatory restored - Science activities to resume and site renovations plann 1 OKIsItJustMe May 18 May 18 8 404

Comedian takes on ai data centers 0 cbabe May 18 May 18 4 582

Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find 6 OKIsItJustMe May 16 May 18 3 819

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Extreme, Deadly Heat In Much Of South Asia Ranging From 111-115F; "It's No Longer Exceptional" 1 hatrack May 17 May 17 9 490

Single-Use Vapes Banned In UK Last Year But 6 Million Pods/Week Still Thrown Out; Fire & Toxin Hazards Abound 1 hatrack May 17 May 17 8 448

Oxygen: 0 applegrove May 17 May 17 19 357

Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 9 NNadir May 9 May 17 2 1122

Texas - Chevron Will Save $227 Million In 10 Years w. Tax Break; Related Data Center Will Host "Over 25 Full-Time Jobs" 0 hatrack May 17 May 17 8 471

2026 World Flop, er, Cup Likely To Set New Mark For Greenwashing Along W. GHG Output 1 hatrack May 17 May 17 6 499

Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 May 17 2 303

Harrison Ford: 5 applegrove May 15 May 17 25 673

How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows Climate Town 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 16 May 17 5 374

NOAA - Super El Nino Now Most Likely Outcome For October-February 27 Period; Could Surpass Record From 150 Years Ago 2 hatrack May 16 May 17 17 638

Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO 3 OKIsItJustMe May 16 May 16 11 613

Global Ocean Conference Arouses Predictable Rhetorical Questions As To Humanity "Awakening" To Environmental Collapse 2 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 3 650

2/3 Of Americans Will Experience A Week Of Extreme Heat & Humidity Starting Friday June 20th 3 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 11 844

Shocked, Shocked!! Corporate Climate And Sustainability Pledges & Policies Melting Away Like Snow In The Sahara 1 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 5 776

Alabama Mining Regulator Expecting Feds To Take Over Mine Regulations As Federal Funding Dries Up 1 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 3 632

10s Of Millions Face Deadly Conditions In Rare June Heatwave; Indices In The Low Hundreds In Multiple Cities 3 hatrack Jun 2025 May 16 11 1017

US EPA proposes delaying enforcement of Biden vehicle pollution rule 1 OKIsItJustMe May 14 May 16 5 265

Wyoming's wolves hit lowest population since 2005 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 15 May 16 7 404

Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts 1 OKIsItJustMe May 15 May 16 8 373

As the Colorado River dries up, how Western states are confronting the water crisis - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 May 16 May 16 8 489

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