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The Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar and Renewables Exposed - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Feb 22 Feb 23 4 515
Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Depends On "Carbon Capture"; Notes Show His Gov Knows Little Of Its Unreality 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 23 9 638
Global Warming Bringing "Synchronized Fire Weather" To Multiple Regions Across Earth, Simultaneously And Quickly 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 23 12 634
The nation's largest public utility is going back to coal -- with almost no input from the public 3 douglas9 Feb 23 Feb 23 12 797
Feds propose opening millions of acres of western Oregon forests to 1960s logging levels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 23 Feb 23 13 461
Parts Of 3 Australian States Bracing For A Year's Worth Of Rain In One Week From Lingering Monsoon Low 1 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 6 504
Acid Wastewater, Algae Blooms, Fishery Closures, Sonic Booms - FL Pays The Price For Launching Penis Rockets, Satellites 6 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 8 827
295,000+ Acres Burned In SW Kansas So Far; Windy Fire Weather Returning, Though Not As Severe As 1st Round 3 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 6 628
Results Of Destroying The Endangerment Finding For Greenhouse Gases "Cannot Be Overstated" 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 12 502
RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 22 13 731
New Airborne Wind Turbine 0 thought crime Feb 21 Feb 21 10 633
Nature Review: The Dark Side of "Green" Technology. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 21 5 804
NOAA - Near-Earth Space Could Host 60,000 Satellites By 2040; Particles From Reentries Add 1.5C To Upper Atmosphere Temp 2 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 8 556
Ohio Anti-Renewable Bill Would Likely Exclude Coal Generation, Since It Requires Minimum Capacity Factor of 50% 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 21 3 580
Trump touts climate savings but new rule set to push up US prices 2 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 21 4 544
NYT: He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking. 4 DBoon Feb 2026 Feb 21 10 858
Europe Today: Drowning In Winter, Withering In Summer And Clueless On Scale And Impact Of Impending Climate Collapse 1 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 16 690
Shitstain Rolls Back Mercury Limits For Coal Power Plants; 68 Plants Already Got Exemptions By Emailing Their Requests 2 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 12 621
Despite court order, a critical FEMA program remains frozen 0 douglas9 Feb 21 Feb 21 8 491
EPA rollbacks on pollution limits could drive up health care costs, advocates warn - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 21 Feb 21 3 355
The epigraph... 1 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 602
W/O Natural Predators, UK Deer Preventing Forest Regrowth; Gov Will Now Support Culls By Landowners 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 715
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 8 529
Even In A "Sunburnt Country", Australia Reeling From This Summer's Record Heat And Fire Season 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 491
TVA Had Been An Independent Agency For Decades; Now, They're Blowing Trump And Embracing More Coal 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 477
Is Germany (Quietly) Rejecting the Green Deal? - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 2 TexasTowelie Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 648
Boring Old Local Citizen Action Stops (At Least For Now) Planned Datacenter In Suburban LA Community 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 647
No Snowpack, No Runoff Coming, And New Mexico Legislature Faceplants - Again - In Attempt To Limit GHG Emissions 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 544
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 6 537
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 7 349

Environment & Energy Continued...

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EU Subsidies For Beef & Lamb Are 580X Greater Than Those For Legumes; For Pork, +/- 240X More 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 371
An Open Sourced Chemical Review on the Removal of Carbon Dioxide Via Seawater. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 503
European Scientific Advisory Board Urges Member Nations To Prepare For 3C Of Warming By 2100 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 556
Glen Canyon Dam Confonts Potential Loss Of Generating Capacity, Damage To River Outlet Works As Drought Continues 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 698
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 8 822
Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 557
Origins of 'gravity hole' over Antarctica finally unveiled 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 36 1358
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica's near-freezing deep 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 20 1033
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 10 591
Thanks To Global Warming, "Excruciatingly Painful" Chikunyungya Can Now Be Transmitted By Mosquitoes In Most Of Europe 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 523
AI Greenwashing - Plenty Of Unsupported Claims, Along With Conflation Of Traditional With Massive Generative AI 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 490
Greenland sled dog champion fears for his culture as climate change melts the ice 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 358
Louisiana bets big on 'blue ammonia.' Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the co 1 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 777
US Agency Pulls Climate From Judges' Manual 0 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 546
Another Reason To Dislike Invasive Kudzu: It's A Superb Ladder Fuel, Turning Ground Fires Into Crown Fires 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 664
Ontario Secures Agreement to Advance World's Largest Nuclear Generating Station 6 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 738
Plastics Mfg Pitched For Years As "Solution" To Appalachia Fracked Gas Glut ; Now, Factories Closing, Oil Majors Leaving 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 706
Air pollution increases physical disability progression in older adults 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 671
Shocked, Shocked: Oil Industry And Government Alike Knew For Decades That Injecting Drilling Waste Would Be Disastrous 5 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 29 1166
Trump Encourages World To Bully Pacific Island Nation Of Vanuatu For Sponsoring A UN Climate Resolution 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 572
World's rarest primate has bounced back from brink of extinction 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 595
Confinement Effects on Moisture-Swing Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 1 664
Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 490
Project 2025 and the EPA 2 UpInArms Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 549
Trump Pushes ENTIRE WORLD Towards DISASTER with FATAL MOVE - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 541
States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus 5 nitpicked Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 678
France slashes renewable energy targets, expands nuclear power with new law. 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 657
Coastal wetland deposition of cathode metals from the world's largest lithium-ion battery fire 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 787
A 'deadly' move: The EPA repeals landmark climate finding - Velshi - MS NOW 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 459
You Don't Say!! Flawed Economic Models Mean Climate Collapse Could Also Collapse Global Economy 5 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 826

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Beyond Insane - Someone Finally Did The Arithmetic On The Absurdity Of Powering Direct Air Capture Of Carbon Dioxide 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 941
134 Staffers Eliminated At National Renewable Energy Lab In Golden, CO 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 625
Sure As Shit Not Happening Here: Chinese Academy Of Sciences Develops High-Resolution 2016-2020 CO2 Dataset 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 498
"The Seasons Have Become Confused" - Individual Stories From The UK's Winter Of Endless Rain 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 560
XAI Using Dozens Of Unpermitted Gas Turbines To Power MS Datacenter; EPA Regulations . . Oh Who The Fuck Am I Kidding? 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 508
Help, please, from the scientists here. About the problem of nuclear waste 11 Easterncedar Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1514
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says 5 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 759
The Wittelest Pwesident Orders DOD To Buy Electricity From Coal-Burning Power Plants - And He Gets A Pwize!!!! 7 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 901
Federal Environmental Law Enforcement Essentially Stopped; 1 Clean Air Action Last Year, 4 Clean Water Actions By EPA 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 368
Shistain Dropped Phony 2025 Climate "Study" From Five Hacks In Eliminating Endangerment Finding 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 423
Interior Secy Promises Cheaper Cars, "Inconceivable" New Magic Technologies, Lies About Climate Science (Just For Lulz) 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 412
World Laughs At Trump As He Accepts Coal Award Whilst Rescinding EPA's 2009 Climate Endangerment Law - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 3 Rhiannon12866 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 907
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding 2 Dulcinea Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 551
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Monarchs Under Endangered Species Act 3 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 587
A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind 1 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 635
Tony Blair's Thinktank (Funded By UAE, Saudis And Larry Ellison) Faceplants With Its "Analysis" Of Climate And Energy 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 648
Despite Remediation 15 Years Ago, Dozens Of City Parks And Playgrounds In New Orleans Contaminated With Lead 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 450
ExIm Bank Updates $4.7 Billion US Loan For TotalEnergies - A French Company - To Build LNG Terminal In Mozambique 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 491
OPG signs deal with Port Hope, Ont., to build new large nuclear reactor 3 OnlinePoker Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 479
First Turtles of the Cold-Stun Season Arrive at The Florida Aquarium (Florida Aquarium) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 420
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