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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 142205
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As E15 Gas Becomes More Common, Remember That It's Terrible For These Engines 11 mahatmakanejeeves 4 hrs ago 30 min ago 9 587
Brazil ethanol sector ready to fill demand from higher blends, going from E30 to E32 this year 0 ffr 36 min ago 36 min ago 0 103
'A Lot Of Americans Aren't Sold On This Whole Car-Centric Life Thing After All' 4 sop Yesterday 2 hrs ago 9 510
Improved efficiency of selective photoionization of palladium isotopes via autoionizing Rydberg states. 2 NNadir 8 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 4 268
Will more Americans embrace renewable energy after the latest oil price surge? - PBS NewsHour 3 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday 21 hrs ago 10 457
Hydrogen Cooking Stove Turns Water Into Clean Fuel 3 Caribbeans Friday 21 hrs ago 10 442
World Energy Investment 2015-2025, by Energy Type, read it, and if you don't weep, you should. 1 NNadir Yesterday 22 hrs ago 5 391
CDC Estimates That 1/5 Appalachian Coal Miners Have Black Lung, So Trump Admin Delaying Dust Rule For 4th Time 2 hatrack Yesterday 23 hrs ago 6 288
Who Wants Coal Waste In Their Drywall? Who Wants To Cut Coal Toxin Testing? EPA Is Coming Through For YOU!! 3 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 8 307
Defence Forces arrive at Whitegate oil refinery in Cork as garda pepper spray protesters 1 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 3 302
Surprise!!! Nations Pinched By Trump's Excellent Adventure In Iran Not Interested In Buying American Energy Exports 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 7 435
EPA Eliminates Office Of Research & Development, Now Busy Transferring Scientists, Apparently At Random 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 7 283
Seattle-based company accused of fishing violations in Alaska's Bering Sea 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 2 287
EPA Head Of Methane Regulations Worked For Oil Majors Lobbying Against Methane Regulations In His Last Job 3 hatrack Apr 1 Friday 8 397
World's first megawatt-class hydrogen turboprop engine completes maiden flight test 2 Caribbeans Monday Friday 4 489
Radioactive Water Discharged into Hudson River for Decades 8 Caribbeans Friday Friday 8 518
☀️ March Heat: US Endured Hottest March on Record as Experts Warned of 'Nonsurvivable' Heatwaves 0 appalachiablue Friday Friday 11 472
Building El Nino 0 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 4 255
City animals act in the same brazen ways around the world 3 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 13 411
Fossil fuels as a "weapon of war": Investigative journalist Antonia Juhasz and Chris Hayes - "Why Is This Happening?" 4 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Thursday 5 478
Mass Drownings Of Penguin Chicks/Hypothermia Behind "Endangered" Update; 4/5 Bellinghausen Sea Colonies Gone 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 16 313
IUCN Declares Emperor Penguins Endangered: Antarctic Fur Seals Also Added To List As Numbers Plunge 50% 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 209
EPA Head Praises Climate Deniers In Person In DC Speech: "A Moment To Celebrate. It Is A Day To Celebrate Vindication" 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 356
Washington declares statewide drought, marks fourth year of drought in some agricultural areas 0 cbabe Thursday Thursday 2 256
Nebraska - One Fire In March 2026 Broke Annual Record For Area Burned; Ranching Making Grasslands More Vulnerable 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 316
4/7/26 Drought Monitor: Slight Increase In Level 2-4 Drought Across Lower 48, But YTD Nearly Double 2025 (36% vs. 19%) 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 199
What To Expect When You're Expecting The End Of The World - Jem Bendell And The Deep Adaptation Paper 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 351
Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 10 447

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Another Oil Rush, Another Boomtown, Another Deforestation Spike In Impoverished Northeastern Brazil 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 285
More Than 21% Of USDA Workforce Gone In Year 1 Of Shitstain 2; Climate, Conservation, Inspection, Research Hard-Hit 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 12 418
A Tribute to two scientists: Paul Ehrlich and Madhav Gadgil 2 jfz9580m Tuesday Wednesday 5 964
A Nuclear Renaissance? Live video discussion on the geopolitics of energy... 2 littlemissmartypants Tuesday Tuesday 3 294
Corpus Christi Water Crisis Prompts Regional Response To (All Together Now!) Pump Even More Groundwater, But Faster 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 493
So Cute!! Some MAGA Voters And Public Figures - Including Katie Miller - Support More Solar, 'Cuz 'Murca 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 532
Heat/Drought Impacts Span Most Of US; Wheat, Beef, Peanuts, Rice, Sugarcane Hit; Irrigation In West Hitting Limits 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 391
More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Have Left Federal Agencies In 1 Year; Climatologist Kate Marvel One Of Them (Interview) 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 12 379
Swiss Forest Study Shows Some Deciduous Species May Be Able To Adapt To Extreme Heat, But Heat + Drought Deadly 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 403
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 431.73 ppm 5 NNadir Sunday Monday 9 656
What Americans Really Pay for Electricity 4 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 6 628
Beavers Emerge As Unlikely Allies In Carbon Removal, New Study Finds 3 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 10 358
7 Weeks Out From Hurricane Season, Fmr. Senator Kickass T. Horsefucker Considering Cutting +/- Half Of 20,000 FEMA Staff 1 hatrack Monday Monday 5 492
Trump's Interior Department Preparing To Ban Bison From Federal Grazing Lands, And To Choke Out Tribal Bison Herds 3 hatrack Sunday Monday 12 598
California's Ocean Temperatures Spiking; La Jolla Station Reported Pacific At 10F Over Historical Average In March 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 9 458
(Re)drilling North Sea Fields Would Do Nearly Nothing To Cut UK Gas Imports; Jackdaw - 2%; Rosebank - 1% 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 326
Much like the old (more honest) days: What so called "renewable energy" is all about. 4 NNadir Apr 3 Sunday 2 748
Merlin - UK's Smallest Bird Of Prey - Extinct By 2050 (W. 200+ Other Species) If Emissions, Land Use Don't Change 2 hatrack Apr 1 Sunday 6 386
Shitstain Moving Forest Service HQ To Salt Lake City; When He Moved BLM HQ Last Term, 90% Of Agency Staff Quit 2 hatrack Apr 1 Sunday 2 428
Iowa Already Faces Massive Problem In Nitrate Pollution In Water; Warming is Making That Pollution Even Worse 3 hatrack Apr 2 Sunday 5 398
Climate Model: Thwaites Ice Loss Alone Will Equal Entire Current Ice Loss From Antarctic By 2060s (+/- 200 Gt Per Year) 1 hatrack Apr 2 Sunday 9 383
On The Brink Of What Could Be The Worst Fire Season In US History, Complete Revamp Of Federal Fire System Underway 4 hatrack Apr 4 Sunday 11 629
Bluebells, Frogspawn, Birds' Eggs, Flowering Trees - UK Experiencing Earliest Biological Spring Ever Recorded 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 354
Microwave Mel Gibson Makes Farty Mouth Noises About "Regulating" Microplastics, But Of Course It's Toothless, Empty PR 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 8 509
During Shitstain 1, Fish & Wildlife Service Added 22 Threatened/Endangered Species; To Date In Shitstain 2, Zero 0 hatrack Apr 4 Apr 4 5 312
The Trump administration is paying this company $1 billion to quit building wind farms 2 Caribbeans Apr 1 Apr 4 5 354
Google Boosts "Net-Zero" By, Uh . . . Powering TX AI Site With Gas Plant That Will Emit More CO2 Than San Francisco 5 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 10 426
Sherwood Plots: A Difference Between the Economics of Material Isolation in the 1950's and 2020s. 1 NNadir Apr 3 Apr 3 4 446
Study - Loss Of Barents Sea Ice Is Increasing Frequency Of Simultaneous Summer Heatwaves in Europe, E. Asia 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 12 402
New England governors unite for nuclear 7 NNadir Apr 2 Apr 3 5 525

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Florida Power & Light Profit Margin - 27 Cents Per Revenue Dollar - Highest In US; Doesn't Include New $7 Billion Hike 1 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 8 477
Interagency Fire Center Assigns "Signiticant Fire Potential" To Much Of Southern Wyoming For April Through June 0 hatrack Apr 3 Apr 3 2 337
A 'failed experiment'? Biofuels under the spotlight as EU scrambles for alternative energy 2 littlemissmartypants Apr 2 Apr 3 3 339
We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 5 applegrove Mar 28 Apr 2 17 623
Loss Of Snowpack Across West Moving At A "Stunning" Pace; Rio Grande Basin At 8% Of Avg, Lower Colorado At 10% 4 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 11 470
O&G rights chatting with someone 2 Marthe48 Apr 2 Apr 2 4 367
"I've Never Heard Roars Like This Except For A Basketball Game" As PA Borough Votes Down Permit For Giant Datacenter 1 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 23 591
EOS - Another Record Low For Maximum Winter Arctic Sea Ice (Again - 2025 Was The Prior Winter Low) 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 319
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections For For Plastic Waste Recycling 2 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 4 297
3/31/26 Drought Monitor - Parts/All Of Every Contiguous State In Some Level Of Drought; 28.98% In Levels 2-4 Drought 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 6 407
Western US Cities Cutting Water Use & Irrigation; Half Of 120 Western Ski Resorts Closed Early Or Never Opened This Year 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 8 412
Yale Study: Cancer Rates Between 4% And 8% Higher In CA/IA/TX Counties Where People Live Near CAFOs 0 hatrack Apr 2 Apr 2 10 580
Forest Service headquarters to relocate to Salt Lake City in major restructuring plan 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 1 Apr 1 2 326
Data Centers create heat islands around themselves where temperatures go up, up to 16 degrees farenheight. 0 applegrove Apr 1 Apr 1 5 326
Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 1 Apr 1 15 404
Coolant Industry Claims To Be Moving Ahead On Eliminating HFCs, Despite Shitstain's Administrative Tantrums 1 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 2 447
MIQ - 3rd Party System That "Certifies" Methane Output - Not Even Close On Actual Totals, Enables Gaming The System 0 hatrack Apr 1 Apr 1 6 391
Federal Judge Rules That AL Power Solar Fee, Among Highest In US, Can Remain; Their Residential Rates Highest In US 2 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 11 569
Bringing this topic back up for those who care about protecting our public lands and waterways 0 blue_jay Mar 31 Mar 31 4 351
FEMA - Can't Attend This Year's National Hurricane Conference, So State & Local Governments Should "Do More" 4 hatrack Mar 31 Mar 31 4 492
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