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Killer CEOs: How Climate Change Became Big Oil's Biggest Crime - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 20 Jan 22 2 258
A Second Amazon Discovered: The Underwater Treasure Spanning Six Countries 1 Judi Lynn Jan 22 Jan 22 16 472
Oregon to Host Nation's Largest Solar-Plus-Storage Installation 1 Think. Again. Jan 22 Jan 22 3 266
China Installed a Record Capacity of Solar and Wind in 2024 - in numbers 17 Think. Again. Jan 21 Jan 22 3 375
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties (from The Guardian) 1 Lulu KC Jan 22 Jan 22 9 282
AI Vital To Our Future, For Without It, There Will Be No Chatbots Doing Automatic Greenwashing For Oil & Gas Companies 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 5 220
Projected Global Atmospheric CO2 Levels For 2025 At Mauna Loa Observatory: Between 426 and 427.2 ppm 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 6 231
During LA Fires, Lead In Smoke Reached 100X Background Levels; 2018 CA Fires May Have Caused 12,000 Premature Deaths 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 5 273
Congressional GQP Clicks Heels For Shitstain's Destruction Of Climate Policy, Energy "Plans" 1 hatrack Jan 22 Jan 22 4 227
"Catastrophic" Bleaching At Southern GBR Site; Of 461 Coral Colonies, 92 Intact, 113 Bleached, 193 Dead By Survey's End 1 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 22 10 284
The significance of Trump withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement - CBS News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 22 Jan 22 2 292
Pivoting to a Strategy based in Climate Adaptation: The Path Forward from Trump-world 10 Think. Again. Jan 21 Jan 22 3 334
30 Million Hectares Of Brazil's Forest Burned In 2024 - Equal In Area To Italy And Up 79% From 2023 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 2 216
Something I thought should happen, hoped to happen, actually happened in 2024, some good news. 8 NNadir Jan 19 Jan 21 11 894
"If You're Not Doing Anything, Why Should We"? Utility Appeals To Eco-Ratepayers One More Offloading Of Responsibility 11 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 21 5 589
One Third Of Arctic Tundra Now Emitting CO2, Instead Of Containing It In Frozen Soils 2 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 7 292
Private UK Water Company Threatens To Raise Executive Pay If Gov Limits Bonuses After Decades of Pollution 3 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 2 258
Equinor Forced To Abandon Claim Of Storing 1 Million Tons Of CO2/Year Offshore; Actual Total About 10% Of That 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 2 271
"Sustainability-Linked Loans" - No Disclosure, No Teeth And No Commitment To Spend On Environmental Improvements 0 hatrack Jan 21 Jan 21 3 253
"Fuck Biden" Banners Adorn LA Town Where IRA Funding To Provide Hurricane Repairs Is Now In Limbo 11 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 13 1104
UK Nuclear Plant Sizewell C cost 'has doubled since 2020 and could near 40bn' 1 Caribbeans Jan 20 Jan 20 2 269
Biden Signs Law Requiring Army Corps To Study Ending Generation At Willamette River Dams To Protect Salmon 2 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 4 376
Highest Use Of Fertilizers On Grasslands Cut Flowers Fivefold; Pollinators Dropped By Up To 50% 1 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 9 268
TX Now Requires Registration Of Oil Waste Pits, But No Need To Line Pits Or Notify Landowners, So Freedumb Survives 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 2 289
UK Environment Ministry Having To Fight To Ensure That $13.5 Million In Sewage Cleanup Funds 2B Used For That Purpose 0 hatrack Jan 20 Jan 20 0 174
As Of 2024, BYD World's Largest EV Manufacturer By Output; Their Most Popular Model Costs $10,000 2 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 20 6 457
Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero' 3 Caribbeans Jan 19 Jan 19 1 404
ENOWA and HRS Launch Saudi Arabia's First Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Refueling Station 0 Caribbeans Jan 19 Jan 19 0 294
Fire at the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing prompts evacuation orders. 5 hunter Jan 17 Jan 19 9 519
LA Residents Returning To The Ruins Face Complex Threats: Lead, Carcinogens Now, Mudslides When The Rains Return 1 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 8 347

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Shitstain Sold Himself To Oil Majors 4/24. Top 15 Oil Billionaires' Wealth Up 15%, To $308 Billion Since That Meeting 0 hatrack Jan 19 Jan 19 6 415
Hydrogen is transforming a tiny Utah coal town. Could its success hold lessons for similar communities? 6 Caribbeans Jan 18 Jan 19 3 504
US Supreme Court Rejects Big Oil Attacks on Hawaii Climate Lawsuit 1 Judi Lynn Jan 13 Jan 19 5 321
INTERPOL, Germany, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Unite Efforts to Tackle Environmental Crime 4 C0RI0LANUS Jan 18 Jan 18 6 416
USGS releases first-ever map of potential for geologic hydrogen in U.S. 1 Caribbeans Jan 18 Jan 18 1 423
Eco-nomics: A brief history of how the climate crisis unfolded 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 18 Jan 18 4 250
Dissolution Rates of Uranium Dioxide in Used Nuclear Fuel in an H2O2/Carbonate System Are Enhanced by Radiation. 0 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 2 237
As Future Generations Will Need to Live on Our Trash: Recovery of Phosphorous and Fluorine from Phosphogypsum. 1 NNadir Jan 18 Jan 18 5 328
2024 CO2 Jump At Mauna Loa Was 3.58 ppm - That's Us Putting 7.6 Billion Tons More CO2 Into The Atmosphere In One Year 2 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 9 268
3M Lied For 40 Years, Knowing That Firefighting Foams Contained PFAS; Company Said They Were Harmless, Biodegradable 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 377
Federal Reserve Leaves Global Central Bank Group Created To Study Climate Risks To Financial System 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 2 254
LA Fire Chief Warned In 2023 Of Lack Of Wildland Fire Defense; Had To Make Do W. Teenage Volunteers 2 Days Each Week 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 4 410
Greenwashing Lawsuit Against P&G; Charmin Labeled As "Sustainable" Despite Company Sourcing Pulp From Boreal Forests 1 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 6 256
At Least $30 Billion In Insured Losses From LA Fires; 2 Outcomes Are Certain: Higher Premiums And Cancelled Coverage 2 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 3 473
Humpback Whale Sightings Spike In Waters Around UK; Population Growth Or Search For Declining Food In Warming Ocean 0 hatrack Jan 18 Jan 18 5 199
Texas The National Test Platform For "Compound Disasters" - As Category 1 Beryl Showed When Houston's Grid Failed 2 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 7 278
Word Of The Week: "Panzootic" - As In Bird Flu's Capacity As A Species Jumper 2 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 5 259
Yes, A Voluntary, Poorly Benchmarked And Riggable Carbon Market For Plugging Abandoned Oil Wells Will Turn The Tide!! 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 5 247
Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 17 2 362
NOAA withdraws speed rule proposal aimed at protecting endangered whale 0 OnlinePoker Jan 17 Jan 17 6 276
Oil and gas companies investing in landfills that turn trash into clean fuel - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 17 Jan 17 3 307
Do offshore wind farms harm whales? Experts weigh in as Trump labels them 'dangerous' 6 Jim__ Jan 17 Jan 17 7 404
Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Jan 17 Jan 17 10 418
CA State-Backed Insurer Warned FAIR Was "One Major Event Away From Insolvency" - And, Well, Here We Are 2 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 6 356
Tech Crunch: Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory 2 Dennis Donovan Jan 17 Jan 17 3 236
Hino (Toyota) Fined $1.6 Billion For Years Of Fraudulent Emissions Data, Smuggling Illegal Engines 1 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 9 292
BP Eliminating 7,700 Jobs (5% Of Its Workforce) Because It Made Noises About Greener Energy Sources 3 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 5 318
Suriname Hammered By Record Drought; Water Supply, Transportation & Public Health Shutting Down As Rivers Dry Up 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 6 226
What LA Residents Are Breathing Is Toxic: Mercury, PCBs, Lead From Burned Electronics, Cars & Buildings In The Mix 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 6 259
Expect Nothing And Worse From Shitstain; It's A Four-Year Big Oil Banquet, And Climate Collapse Doesn't Even Exist 1 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 5 248

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Rate Of Annual Atmospheric CO2 Increase In 2024 - 3.6 ppm - Was Twice That Needed For Putative 1.5C Goal 0 hatrack Jan 17 Jan 17 6 194
Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity 1 Judi Lynn Jan 17 Jan 17 2 209
Who does the EPA protect? 2 douglas9 Jan 16 Jan 16 6 316
Mitsubishi Drops Plan For 77-Acre Chemical Plant In Lousiana's Cancer Alley Along The Mississippi River 1 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 5 372
Author Of "Fire "Weather" - "We Are Going To Have To Let Go Of A Lot Of The 20th Century" 2 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 13 538
Climate Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 16 Jan 16 8 290
Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss 4 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 7 487
Meet Your Incoming Energy Secretary - Smugly "Standing By" His Dismissal Of Climate Collapse As 'Hype" 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 7 454
The Press Makes Sporadic Connections Between Extremes Like LA's Fires And Climate Breakdown - And It's Not Nearly Enough 0 hatrack Jan 16 Jan 16 3 269
'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves 0 Judi Lynn Jan 16 Jan 16 8 325
New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed 3 Eugene Jan 15 Jan 15 7 375
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 15 Jan 15 6 195
I'm A Climate Scientist - My House In LA Burned Down - I Feel Safe Saying We Are Not Thriving On Our Changing Planet 7 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 30 1130
Republican drafting anti-offshore wind order with Trump 0 Eugene Jan 15 Jan 15 7 342
Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright Testifies at Confirmation Hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 15 Jan 15 2 253
SCOTUS Declines To Hear Cases On Energy Company Liability, UT Public Lands, Vineyard Wind, Air Pollution 3 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 5 344
Statistia: Annual Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1940-2024 (Handy Detailed Graphic) 1 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 5 268
Despite Advances In Breeding, Science Consensus Grows That "De-Extinction" Is Likely Impossible 0 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 6 404
Not That They Would Have Done Much, But World's Largest Banks Eager To Remove Themselves From Climate Commitments 0 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 2 267
Oh Goody!! Liz Truss And Nigel Farage Are Going To Be Part Of A New UK Climate Denial Group, Hosted By Heartland 0 hatrack Jan 15 Jan 15 3 268
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