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"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 4 316
If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 681
26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 470
"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 5 360
"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 6 393
Little Things Going Away: What Happened To Recurring National Snow & Ice Data Center Updates & Tools 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 336
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 4 317
New Modeling Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss: Imagine 843 Ice Cubes 1 Kilometer Per Side Disappearing Every Year 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 339
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 4 427
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 14 569
Annual Damages From Global Warming To Planet's Oceans +/- $2 Trillion (Fisheries, Reefs, Infrastructure) 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 7 392
1 Year After The Moss Landing Battery Fire, EPA Says No Problem, Despite WidespreadToxic Metal Deposition 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 4 449
Rotten. Crooked. Stupid. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 17 Jan 17 10 585
Rep. AOC Highlights Severe Job Loss After Department of Energy Cancels Billions in Energy Projects - Rep. AOC 8 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 16 8 487
Should We Relax Our Server Contempt If Used to Understand Batteries and Solar Cells? 4 NNadir Jan 15 Jan 16 3 448
"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 8 510
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 4 447
Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy - Persuading Voters They'll Be Protected When TSHTF (They Won't Be) 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 6 361
No Way!!! While Average US Residential Electrical Rates Rose 10% 2022-24, Industrial Rates (AI) Fell 3% 2 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 19 763
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 8 584
India: 10% of India's 150 elephant corridors now non-existent 0 Beringia Jan 15 Jan 15 4 343
Trump's Climate War Breaks the Law - UNFCCC - the treaty that underpins global climate cooperation - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 15 Jan 15 2 286
Republicans still won't say it: climate change is real - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 14 Jan 15 3 310
OK, UT Legislatures Working On Immunity For Oil & Gas Companies Against Climate Lawsuits 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 1 358
After 20 Years, Brazil's Moratorium On Deforestation To Grow Soybeans Is Disintegrating 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 3 291
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 9 343
"Near-Universal" Opposition To Gigantic AL Data Center; Now Developer Wants Another 900 Acres Rezoned As Industrial 0 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 4 430
Thanks, AI!! At Least 15 US Coal Plants Set For Retirement Are Online "For The Forseeable Future" 3 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 7 586
EPA Proposal Would Block State & Tribal Action To Oppose Pipelines And Data Centers That Threaten Water Quality 1 hatrack Jan 14 Jan 14 9 447
Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 14 Rhiannon12866 Jan 8 Jan 13 5 1082

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker Jan 13 Jan 13 5 351
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom 1 douglas9 Jan 13 Jan 13 3 464
Himalayan Snowpack Falling Quickly Compared To 1980-2020 Baseline; No DecemberRain/Snow In Nearly All Of Northern India 2 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 3 347
House Passes Bill To Claw Back $500 Million In Abandoned Mine Cleanup Money From VA, IL, KY, WV 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 4 484
No Wonder Trump Loves Venezuelan Oil - Its Decaying Infrastructure Leaks 13 Billion M3 Of Methane Each Year 1 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 411
"Embarassing" - Tour Down Under Cyclists Wondering Why Ever-Hotter Race Sponsored By Oil/Gas Company Santos 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 9 447
After Up To Two Feet Of Rain In Queensland, Multiple Communities May Be Cut Off For Weeks Or Months 0 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 7 424
Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler Jan 13 Jan 13 3 344
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Jan 11 Jan 12 7 422
A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 7 508
Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 6 466
850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 504
Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 680
Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 12 Jan 12 4 281
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Jan 11 Jan 11 5 676
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Jan 10 Jan 10 2 679
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 5 454
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 8 481
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 2 382
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 4 331
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 11 313
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 12 604
Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 9 352
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 6 427
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Jan 8 Jan 8 7 407
Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Jan 8 Jan 8 5 548
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 10 691
Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 5 454
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Jan 8 Jan 8 7 399
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Jan 7 Jan 7 4 389

Environment & Energy Continued...

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No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 1 Jan 7 7 700
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 7 26 877
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 6 361
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 7 415
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Jan 7 Jan 7 6 445
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Jan 6 Jan 6 60 2034
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Jan 6 Jan 6 8 485
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 6 Jan 6 4 257
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 23 946
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 6 316
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 7 390
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 3 343
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 6 282
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Jan 5 Jan 5 11 336
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Jan 5 Jan 5 6 303
After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 9 385
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 10 455
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 2 340
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 5 338
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 4 Jan 4 4 425
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