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America Leads Global, Massive Expansion Of Gas Power Plants Because Of (All Together Now!) AI. USA!! USA!! USA!! 1 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 1 392

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is Yet Again Under Threat, This Time From Congress 0 douglas9 Jan 29 Jan 29 9 407

Awwww!!!! Shitstain Backs Away From Pushing EPA To Gut Endangerment Finding - It Would Likely Lose In Court 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 5 376

Wastewater Geysers, Land Cracks & Subsidence Prompt West TX Landowner To Sue 8 Oil Companies For Damages 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 2 397

Conoco Phillips Rig On Its Way To Drill Falls Over, Catches On Fire - The Rig "Left The Road" 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 4 410

Well, Good Luck: OK State Senator Trying To Rein In Pollution Of Groundwater From Fracking Operations 0 hatrack Jan 29 Jan 29 5 317

Data centers are facing an image problem. The tech industry is spending millions to rebrand them. 1 douglas9 Jan 28 Jan 29 11 374

Environmental Activists Sued To Get UK National Security Assessment; Even Then, It Was Redacted 1 hatrack Jan 28 Jan 28 3 371

Guardian - What It's Like In Victoria These Days, When The Temperature Finally Dips Below 104F At 8:30 PM 1 hatrack Jan 28 Jan 28 9 471

Shitstain's EPA: 66 Environmental Rollbacks In One Year: "I Am For Whatever President Trump Is Advocating For" 0 hatrack Jan 28 Jan 28 8 525

Jacking Up Prices, Censoring Bookstores - But Worst Part Of Assault On NPS Devastating Loss Of Institutional Knowledge 2 hatrack Jan 27 Jan 27 17 576

This Storm Is Exactly What You'd Expect In A Warming World; BTW, How Will FEMA Respond (Assuming It Can)? 1 hatrack Jan 27 Jan 27 10 662

After Millei Cuts Firefighting Funds 81%, Argentina Faces Tough Go Fighting Huge Fires In Monoculure Pine Forests 0 hatrack Jan 27 Jan 27 3 444

All-Time Record Highs Across S. Australia, Victoria Approaching 50C (122F); Overnight Low In Adelaide Was 95F 0 hatrack Jan 27 Jan 27 8 401

I'm through one of my son's recent publications almost in tears. 7 NNadir Jan 23 Jan 26 53 1822

The Ocean Already 30% More Acidic Than In Preindustrial Era; Key Planetary Limit For Acidification Was Breached In 2020 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 11 373

New Mexico Sues 3 Texas Oil Execs For Offloading Cleanup For 100s Of Abandoned Wells While Pocketing Profits 3 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 15 510

Since There's No Problem That Can't Be Solved W. Marketing, Prepare For Lots Of Shiny, Green Data Center Advertising 1 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 6 460

At Late-January Seasonal Maximum Extent, Arctic Sea Ice Still Well Below All-Time Prior Record Lows 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 5 336

Pakistan Turned To China To Address Power Shortages, Now Faces Severe Pollution And Crippling Debt For Coal Plants 0 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 2 339

Poof!! ExxonMobil Creates Whole New Accounting System For GHGs, And Climate Collapse Is YOUR Fault, NOT Theirs!! 1 hatrack Jan 26 Jan 26 8 536

"Snow Drought" Means Significant Drawdown Likely From Flaming Gorge Dam This Spring In Effort To Prop Up Powell & Mead 3 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 7 579

Australia's Winter 2025-25 Heatwave Worst Since 2019-20's Black Summer, Made 5X More Likely By Global Warming 0 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 6 302

To Breathe In Delhi Means Inhaling (On Average) The Equivalent Of Half A Pack Of Cigarettes Every Day 0 hatrack Jan 25 Jan 25 4 419

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow 1 littlemissmartypants Jan 25 Jan 25 7 367

Joshua trees are flowering in the Calif. desert. That's bad news. 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 25 Jan 25 21 940

"Most Of The Data Centers Do Not Consume Water" - Ladies & Gentlemen, The Governor Of Utah!! 9 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 751

"Everything Is Worse Since Drax Came Here": "Green" Energy For UK, Pollution & Lung Disease For LA, MS Residents 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 510

Nevada Snowpack Quarter Below January Median; Warmest December Ever For Elko, Reno And Las Vegas 1 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 3 338

Science/AAAS - Muskism, Voughtism, Trumpism - Three Different Approaches To Destroying Science And Government 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 9 372

Environment & Energy Continued...

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MIT Modeling In The Wake of CRAP 30 Shows 1.5C By 2030, 1.8C By 2050 And 3C By 2100 0 hatrack Jan 24 Jan 24 6 398

Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 24 Jan 24 4 416

Arkansas to become best source of lithium in US through new process - NewsNation 0 TexasTowelie Jan 23 Jan 23 3 372

Measuring Economic Recovery in Post Covid China by Monitoring Air Pollutants (NO2) 0 NNadir Jan 22 Jan 22 4 308

FDA Used To Screen For 8 Foodborne Pathogens. Now They Screen For 2, W. Inspection Rates Collapsing 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 8 528

"Global Water Bankruptcy" Has Arrived; 2 Billion Live On Sinking Ground; 75% Live In Countries "Water-Insecure" Or Worse 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 3 466

Bobby Brainworm Sez "Eat More Meat And Dairy!!"; His Guidelines Would Require An Additional 100 Million Acres Of Land 5 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 7 530

UK Restaurant Chain Facing Eviction From Enfield Site After Felling 500-Year-Old Oak On Leased Property 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 22 602

Just 32 National & Private Corporations Are Responsible For 50% Of Human Carbon Dioxide Emissions 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 11 603

Oil Companies Realize That This President Blocking Wind Farms Could Mean Another President Blocking Refineries 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 12 534

19 Dead, 135 Square Miles Burn In Central Chile; Similar In Chubut, Argentina, But Fire Response Funding Cut, Because $$ 1 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 21 6 487

As Temperatures Rise, Dengue & Chikunyungya Gain Ground In Dhaka, Home To 37 Million Residents 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 5 336

Army Corps to look at $1.5B underwater Columbia River power line project 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 20 Jan 20 1 286

Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 4 hatrack Dec 17 Jan 19 12 613

Gates Charity Trust Pledged To Divest From Fossil Fuels In 2019; In 2024, $254 Invested In Chevron, Shell, BP 1 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 531

Scientists Warm Of "Regime Shift" In Oceans As Warming And Pollution Drive Massive Algae Blooms Not Seen Before 2008 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 7 436

Japan Continues Slow Restart Of Nuclear Power Generation W. Upgraded Unit In Niigata Prefecture 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 5 326

WY - 2024 Worst Fire Year Since Huge Yellowstone Fires Of 1988; State GOP: Cut Property Taxes Funding Fire Response 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 2 368

AK State Legislator Proposes 20 Center/Barrel Tax On State's Oil Production To Cover Costs Of Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 3 458

"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 4 337

If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 902

26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 510

"Comprehensive" Failure Of Shitstain's Pledge To Cut Energy Bills In Half Across US: DC Up 23%, IN Up 17%, IL Up 15% 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 401

"Climate Pragmatism" A La Bill Gates Assumes That 3C Won't Be All That Bad; It Will Likely Be Far Worse Than We Imagine 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 6 419

Little Things Going Away: What Happened To Recurring National Snow & Ice Data Center Updates & Tools 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 358

W. Last Week's Proposed Changes, The EPA Is Eliminating Its Powers To Regulate Pollution And To Protect Human Health 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 342

New Modeling Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss: Imagine 843 Ice Cubes 1 Kilometer Per Side Disappearing Every Year 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 360

Strange How An Economist Won The Nobel Prize For Arguing That We Shouldn't Do "Too Much" To Avert Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 519

27 Engineered Stone Workers Dead From Silicosis In CA Alone In Six Years, So GOP Preparing To Protect Manufacturers 3 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 14 605

Annual Damages From Global Warming To Planet's Oceans +/- $2 Trillion (Fisheries, Reefs, Infrastructure) 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 7 418

Environment & Energy Continued...

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1 Year After The Moss Landing Battery Fire, EPA Says No Problem, Despite WidespreadToxic Metal Deposition 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 4 474

Rotten. Crooked. Stupid. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 17 Jan 17 10 610

Rep. AOC Highlights Severe Job Loss After Department of Energy Cancels Billions in Energy Projects - Rep. AOC 8 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 16 8 535

Should We Relax Our Server Contempt If Used to Understand Batteries and Solar Cells? 4 NNadir Jan 15 Jan 16 3 496

"Relentless Human-Caused Heat" Continued In 2025 At Or Above 1.5C "Limit"; ESA Projects 1.7C Increase In 2027 2 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 16 8 539

Shitstain Wants To Stop Any And All Coal Plant Shutdowns, Even If They're Falling Apart, Would Cost Billions To Fix 4 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 4 490

Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy - Persuading Voters They'll Be Protected When TSHTF (They Won't Be) 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 6 392

No Way!!! While Average US Residential Electrical Rates Rose 10% 2022-24, Industrial Rates (AI) Fell 3% 2 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 19 824

Florida Bill Would Block Any Attempts To Change Land Use/Development Rules That Recognize Reality Of Storms, Rising Seas 8 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 8 651

India: 10% of India's 150 elephant corridors now non-existent 0 Beringia Jan 15 Jan 15 4 377

Trump's Climate War Breaks the Law - UNFCCC - the treaty that underpins global climate cooperation - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 15 Jan 15 2 310

Republicans still won't say it: climate change is real - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 15 3 334

OK, UT Legislatures Working On Immunity For Oil & Gas Companies Against Climate Lawsuits 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 1 373

After 20 Years, Brazil's Moratorium On Deforestation To Grow Soybeans Is Disintegrating 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 3 326

EPA Will Stop Calculating How PM 2.5 & Ozone Cuts Save Lives/Health; Now, Only Costs To Industry To Be Calculated 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 368

"Near-Universal" Opposition To Gigantic AL Data Center; Now Developer Wants Another 900 Acres Rezoned As Industrial 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 4 447

Thanks, AI!! At Least 15 US Coal Plants Set For Retirement Are Online "For The Forseeable Future" 3 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 7 622

EPA Proposal Would Block State & Tribal Action To Oppose Pipelines And Data Centers That Threaten Water Quality 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 474

Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 14 Rhiannon12866 Jan 8 Jan 13 5 1175

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker Jan 13 Jan 13 5 379

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