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At Michigan climate conference, Jay Inslee says states still hold power on clean energy 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 23 Apr 23 4 302
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 1041
Why do some people act on climate change while others stay silent? 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 2 310
98% of all recent environmental ... world's largest meat and dairy companies can be categorized as "greenwashing" ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 8 444
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 7 493
IEA - Global Energy Review 2026 - Technology: Nuclear 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 3 328
IEA - Global Energy Review 2026 - Technology: Solar PV and wind 0 OKIsItJustMe Apr 23 Apr 23 4 367
BOOM: Republican Bill YANKED From Floor in SURPRISE Move - Meidas Touch 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 552
The Scheme #37 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 23 Apr 23 5 365
PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl's painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger 4 OKIsItJustMe Apr 22 Apr 22 1 453
Wind Powered Cargo Ships 23 thought crime Apr 21 Apr 22 6 1558
Testing finds toxic metals where Tesla lithium refinery discharges wastewater in South Texas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 22 Apr 22 10 806
New growth in logged forests inspires photographer's hope - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 22 Apr 22 4 325
In the battle vs. invasive Burmese pythons, Florida turns to possums 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 21 Apr 21 6 585
Some Aspects of the Fuel for the Energy Device with the Lowest Carbon Intensity Known. 0 NNadir Apr 21 Apr 21 0 405
IEA Electricity Price Comparison 2026 Year to Date France and Germany with carbon intensity reports. 4 NNadir Apr 20 Apr 21 1 557
Cities turn streetlights red to protect nocturnal ecosystems - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 Apr 21 16 503
Leaked SCOTUS Memos From 2016 Show Alito & Roberts Never Once Considered Costs Of NOT Regulating GHGs, Toxins 3 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 11 601
China Puts Fully-Electric, Intelligent Containership in Service 4 littlemissmartypants Apr 20 Apr 21 4 383
Worlds first permanent nuclear waste site 1 thought crime Apr 19 Apr 21 7 507
Corpus Christi Projects Emergency Water Restrictions In September; Everyone Busy Drilling More Wells 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 11 763
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 10 383
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 9 527
If You Care About the Future, Watch This - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Apr 20 Apr 20 8 441
This was a great white shark hotspot. Then they mysteriously vanished 1 marmar Apr 20 Apr 20 6 633
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 5 423
"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 4 408
New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power 11 Caribbeans Apr 18 Apr 20 4 1050
Germany's May Electricity Prices Surge to Four Times that of France. 5 NNadir Apr 19 Apr 20 8 755
TX Oil Companies Avoiding Action On 11,000+ Stripper/Orphan Wells Producing Little Oil, Much Pollution 1 hatrack Apr 19 Apr 19 8 448

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Extensive faults beneath Nevada nuclear lab raise unanswered earthquake risks 1 Caribbeans Apr 19 Apr 19 5 454
We're SAVED!!! Jet fuel from cellulose. 9 NNadir Apr 19 Apr 19 11 1313
Climate Liars (Heartland, Steven Milloy) Hate MAHA And RFK Jr. Even More Than They Hate Liberals And Regulations 0 hatrack Apr 19 Apr 19 4 442
Fusion power may never be cost-competitive with renewables, study warns 0 thought crime Apr 19 Apr 19 6 434
Iran war energy shocks drive nuclear power plans in hard-hit Asia and Africa - Associated Press 2 TexasTowelie Apr 17 Apr 19 7 515
Countries with the most coal plants in the world. 1 NNadir Apr 18 Apr 19 4 570
Real world numbers from the grand renewable energy experiment are not promising. 5 hunter Apr 18 Apr 19 6 736
"Wi-fi" but for energy? COOL! 10 buzzycrumbhunger Apr 18 Apr 19 13 918
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 8 874
Why birds and foxes could act as early warning systems of antibiotic resistance across ecosystems 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 18 Apr 18 5 360
Morocco: 0 applegrove Apr 18 Apr 18 14 386
As the 40th anniversary of Chornobyl approaches, I will no longer be calling it "Chernobyl" in my writings. 0 NNadir Apr 18 Apr 18 7 536
Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind "boom?" 2 NNadir Apr 17 Apr 18 6 912
Wildlife crossings save animal lives: 4 applegrove Apr 17 Apr 17 12 517
China fast-tracks hydrogen strategy to 'scale-up' phase in high-stakes energy transition 5 Caribbeans Apr 17 Apr 17 1 781
March heat wave in western North America placed in historical perspective: 0 applegrove Apr 17 Apr 17 9 422
So Many Climate Delay Narratives, So Vanishingly Little Time . . . . 2 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 6 581
Trump Order Strips Protection From Boundary Waters Wilderness So Mining Can Begin, Because Fuck Earth 18 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 52 2337
As Arctic Soils Thaw, Releases Of Iron And Other Metals Wiping Out Life In Entire Rivers And Streams 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 13 507
Speaking of Lake Powell . . . 5 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 17 13 530
CenterPoint urged federal government not to reissue emergency order on Warrick County coal plant, letter shows 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 17 Apr 17 3 294
Recent Advances in Cladding Material Extraction from Fuels in Nuclear Fuel Cycles 0 NNadir Apr 16 Apr 16 2 617
Jet Fuel Crisis - Joe Blogs 3 TexasTowelie Apr 16 Apr 16 3 436
San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It's Selling It 9 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 16 Apr 16 3 628
Kenya Sentences Chinese Man To 1-Year Prison Term For Smuggling . . . Ants? 6 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 1 460
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 6 430
4/14/26 Drought Monitor - 57.8% Of Lower 48 In Level 2-4 Drought Conditions 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 305
Study: "Almost Certain" Collapse Of Atlantic Conveyer By 2100, And This Model Excludes Greenland Ice Loss 11 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 44 1904
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 6 423
Iowa Law Shields CAFOs, Ethanol Plants From Lawsuits Over GHG Emissions - Lawsuits That Do Not Exist 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 1 399

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Maine Bill Blocks Construction Of Data Centers Of More Than 20 MW Capacity Until October 2027 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 340
Great Britain households to be urged to use MORE power this summer as renewables soar 1 Caribbeans Apr 16 Apr 16 5 532
Biologists are racing to save America's freshwater mussels 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 15 Apr 15 10 341
War in Iran could accelerate global energy transition - FRANCE 24 6 TexasTowelie Apr 14 Apr 15 8 735
James Hansen et al -- Super-Duper El Nino 1 OKIsItJustMe Apr 15 Apr 15 14 626
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.87 ppm 2 NNadir Apr 12 Apr 15 6 624
Elon Musk's xAI Sued by NAACP Over Memphis Data Center 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 15 Apr 15 10 456
IMF And IEA Now Projecting Global Recession From Shitstain's War Of Choice, Hormuz Blockade 2 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 4 472
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 3 405
FEMA Employees "Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop" As DHS Sec. Kickass T. Horsefucker Takes The Reins 0 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 8 591
ExxonMobil And Subsidiaries Face Lawsuit For $200 Million Fraud Scheme In NM To Dump "Orphan Wells" 0 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 7 523
World's largest offshore wind farm is getting plugged in 1 Caribbeans Apr 14 Apr 15 6 565
'A Lot Of Americans Aren't Sold On This Whole Car-Centric Life Thing After All' 7 sop Apr 11 Apr 13 11 913
Don't mention the climate: Trump creates 'beyond absurd' situation at global finance talks 1 muriel_volestrangler Apr 13 Apr 13 8 563
Improved efficiency of selective photoionization of palladium isotopes via autoionizing Rydberg states. 6 NNadir Apr 12 Apr 13 5 842
China's Electrostate Is Poised to Win From War in the Middle East 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 3 576
When Complete, Lake Charles LNG Terminal Will Produce More GHGs Than Any Terminal In The Country 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 8 641
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 4 443
Datacenter Opposition Growing In Georgia; Land Impacts, Water Pollution, Electricity Costs Primary Resident Worries 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 6 414
TX Railroad Commission Member Facing Hard-Right Challenger. Why? He Pushed To (Slightly) Update Oil Waste Rules 0 hatrack Apr 13 Apr 13 2 399
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