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Plastics Mfg Pitched For Years As "Solution" To Appalachia Fracked Gas Glut ; Now, Factories Closing, Oil Majors Leaving 1 hatrack Feb 17 Feb 17 9 689
Air pollution increases physical disability progression in older adults 5 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 17 11 631
Shocked, Shocked: Oil Industry And Government Alike Knew For Decades That Injecting Drilling Waste Would Be Disastrous 5 hatrack Feb 16 Feb 17 29 1125
Trump Encourages World To Bully Pacific Island Nation Of Vanuatu For Sponsoring A UN Climate Resolution 2 hatrack Feb 16 Feb 16 7 543
World's rarest primate has bounced back from brink of extinction 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 16 Feb 16 10 579
Confinement Effects on Moisture-Swing Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere. 0 NNadir Feb 16 Feb 16 1 642
Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 5 475
Project 2025 and the EPA 2 UpInArms Feb 15 Feb 16 7 535
Trump Pushes ENTIRE WORLD Towards DISASTER with FATAL MOVE - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 16 Feb 16 6 523
States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus 5 nitpicked Feb 15 Feb 15 7 646
France slashes renewable energy targets, expands nuclear power with new law. 2 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 5 628
Coastal wetland deposition of cathode metals from the world's largest lithium-ion battery fire 0 NNadir Feb 15 Feb 15 6 767
A 'deadly' move: The EPA repeals landmark climate finding - Velshi - MS NOW 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 15 Feb 15 7 441
You Don't Say!! Flawed Economic Models Mean Climate Collapse Could Also Collapse Global Economy 5 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 14 14 789
Beyond Insane - Someone Finally Did The Arithmetic On The Absurdity Of Powering Direct Air Capture Of Carbon Dioxide 3 hatrack Feb 14 Feb 14 12 915
134 Staffers Eliminated At National Renewable Energy Lab In Golden, CO 4 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 14 11 593
Sure As Shit Not Happening Here: Chinese Academy Of Sciences Develops High-Resolution 2016-2020 CO2 Dataset 0 hatrack Feb 14 Feb 14 9 480
"The Seasons Have Become Confused" - Individual Stories From The UK's Winter Of Endless Rain 0 hatrack Feb 14 Feb 14 6 537
XAI Using Dozens Of Unpermitted Gas Turbines To Power MS Datacenter; EPA Regulations . . Oh Who The Fuck Am I Kidding? 0 hatrack Feb 14 Feb 14 8 491
Help, please, from the scientists here. About the problem of nuclear waste 11 Easterncedar Feb 12 Feb 14 7 1384
Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says 5 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 13 2 710
The Wittelest Pwesident Orders DOD To Buy Electricity From Coal-Burning Power Plants - And He Gets A Pwize!!!! 7 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 13 11 843
Federal Environmental Law Enforcement Essentially Stopped; 1 Clean Air Action Last Year, 4 Clean Water Actions By EPA 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 7 352
Shistain Dropped Phony 2025 Climate "Study" From Five Hacks In Eliminating Endangerment Finding 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 9 408
Interior Secy Promises Cheaper Cars, "Inconceivable" New Magic Technologies, Lies About Climate Science (Just For Lulz) 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 7 396
World Laughs At Trump As He Accepts Coal Award Whilst Rescinding EPA's 2009 Climate Endangerment Law - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 3 Rhiannon12866 Feb 13 Feb 13 4 877
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding 2 Dulcinea Feb 13 Feb 13 12 522
Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Monarchs Under Endangered Species Act 3 douglas9 Feb 13 Feb 13 8 563
A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind 1 douglas9 Feb 13 Feb 13 9 621
Tony Blair's Thinktank (Funded By UAE, Saudis And Larry Ellison) Faceplants With Its "Analysis" Of Climate And Energy 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 6 627

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Despite Remediation 15 Years Ago, Dozens Of City Parks And Playgrounds In New Orleans Contaminated With Lead 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 6 438
ExIm Bank Updates $4.7 Billion US Loan For TotalEnergies - A French Company - To Build LNG Terminal In Mozambique 0 hatrack Feb 13 Feb 13 4 475
OPG signs deal with Port Hope, Ont., to build new large nuclear reactor 3 OnlinePoker Feb 12 Feb 12 2 460
First Turtles of the Cold-Stun Season Arrive at The Florida Aquarium (Florida Aquarium) 0 eppur_se_muova Feb 12 Feb 12 3 409
Back Room Climate Lies 2 roscoeroscoe Feb 12 Feb 12 6 537
Shitstain Ends Fenceline Monitoring Of Toxins At Coke Ovens (Benzene, PAH, Cyanide Etc.), Citing "National Security" 0 hatrack Feb 12 Feb 12 8 508
Along W. 23 Deaths & 1,000+ Homes Destroyed, Patagonia's Fires Raged Through Remnant Ancient Forests 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 12 11 750
Glaciers in Retreat: Uncovering Tourism's Contradictions 4 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 747
Making hydrogen fuel cells 'less precious' 11 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 1407
"This engine is grinding to a halt" - Nature slowing down as climate change gains pace 2 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 712
NSIDC Director: "I Have Not Seen A Winter Like This Before"; Worst Western Snow Drought In Decades 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 570
Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There's an Elementary School There. (Texas) 2 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 831
NASA Dataset: Rate Of Global Warming In Past 30 Years Fastest Since 1880; 2015-25 Warmest 11 Years On Record 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 413
UW researchers use satellite data to quantify methane loss in the stratosphere 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 441
Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014-2017 global heatwave 2 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 573
100 Flood Warnings In UK; Wettest January In N. Ireland In 149 Years - Warming Driving Storms And Rainfall Intensity 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 476
Paul, Weiss Withdraws From At Least 4 ExxonMobil Climate Liability Cases Filed By Local Governments 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 512
Analysis: After A Year Of Trump's Energy "Policy", It's Stupidity, Higher Costs And Pollution All The Way Down 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 555
Herculean Efforts To Protect Great Barrier Reef Do Everything Except Address The Reason For Its Accelerating Decline 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 404
Illinois Taxpayers Face $1 Billion Bill To Clean Up The Mess From 1,000s Of Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 437
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 370
Trump Allies Near 'Total Victory' in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation 1 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 596
World's First 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Powers Grid In China 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 459
The Climate Science reference they don't want Judges to read 3 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 724
Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity and climate resilience under press 4 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 784
Another El Nino Already? What Can We Learn from It? -- James Hansen, et al. 6 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 951
CFC replacements behind hundreds of thousands of tonnes of global 'forever chemical' pollution 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 2026 Feb 2026 2 404
"More Everything Forever" Author On Magical Futurism Bullshit Churned Out By Musk, Thiel, Altman, et. al. 18 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 55 2761
German energy policy moves from expensive stuff that doesn't work well to stuff that doesn't exist. 9 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 1284
After A Decade Of Lawsuits, Corteva Will Stop Making Enlist Duo, Herbicide Mix Of Glyphosate And Agent Orange 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 820

Environment & Energy Continued...

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More Than 200 Flood Alerts Issued Across England And Wales; 39 Days And Nights Of Rain In The UK Since 1/1/26 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 599
TX - 500+ Oil Tanks Sit In The Guadalupe River Floodplain; In 1998 Flood, The River Exceeded 7 Miles In Width 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 659
Guardian Invokes Betteridge's Law Of Headlines: "Economic Growth Is Still Heating The Planet. Is There Any Way Out?" 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 457
DOGE and the deluge: The hits on our cherished public recreation lands just keep coming 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 541
As Of 2/7/2026, Lake Powell Now Below 25% Of Capacity; Trash Screens Visible Above Penstocks On Dam Face 10 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 19 1464
Determining the Source of Water from the Combustion of Dangerous Fossil Fuels by Oxygen Isotopes. 0 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 529
Potential For El Nino Year; Could Push Global Temps To Records In 2027 (23, 24, 25 Current Hottest Years) 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 486
NOAA ESRL - January 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 428.62 ppm; January 2025 426.65 ppm; January 2024 422.80 ppm 6 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 4 684
NOAA - Western US Snowpack Lowest In Decades, Esp. In CO River Headwaters Area; 2/1/26 Total Cover Lowest On Record 4 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 683
At The Threshold Of 1.5C, Paris Is Dead; A Picture Of Rapid Climate Destabilization Is Becoming Increasingly Clear 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 639
In Greenland, 200 Companies Have Mining Licenses; 2 Mines Exist. Good Luck W. Your Big Plan, President Fuckstick 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 5 653
Federal Judge Strikes Down TX Law Intended To Target Critics Of Fossil Fuels 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 537
In Memoriam: The Scientific Legacy of Dr. Katherine T. Peter 2 NNadir Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 696
Only seven new petrol-powered cars sold in Norway in January 0 hunter Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 440
Warmer Water From Emptier Colorado River Reservoirs Has Multiple Negative Impacts On Power Generation, Water Treatment 3 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 590
Shocked, Shocked! Bezos Destroys WP Climate Reporting Team - 14 Of 19 Reporters On That Beat Are Now Gone 1 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 720
One Year's Data From MethaneSat Showed Global CH4 Output From Oil & Gas Operations "Far Exceeds" Company Claims 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 517
Electronic Waste Graveyard 2 douglas9 Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 634
EPA Destroying Environmental Protections Across The Board While Citing "National Security" For Clean Air Act Exemptions 2 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 654
Six Weeks On, Massive Fires In Argentine Patagonia Have Destroyed 110,000+ Acres Of Forest 0 hatrack Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 471
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