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Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 4 131
Why Finland's reindeer are dying by the thousands - CNN 4 TexasTowelie 8 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 6 384
Whitmer Undoes Her Own Environmental Legacy By Backing (You Guessed It!) Tax Incentives For Data Centers 1 hatrack 6 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 6 179
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 0 61
SF Blackout Blocks Streets & Intersections With Paralyzed Waymo Cabs 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 327
Shocked, Shocked: Major UK Grocer Delays Net-Zero Plan For Another 15 Years (But It'll Be Great In 2050!) 2 hatrack Wednesday Sunday 4 238
For The 5th Time In 3 Years, Exxon & Pals Pushing SCOTUS For Liability Help; Also Pushing Congress For Legal Immunity 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 266
After Gutting Climate Laws In 2025, President Vought & Oval Office Assistant Try To Make Change Permanent In 2026 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 212
Their Clients Include BP, Aramco & Shell; Now They're Advising UK Arts Orgs On How To Justify Taking Oil & Gas Money 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 219
More Climate Leadership From Amazon! A Koch-Sponsored AI & Energy Conference Chock-Full Of Paid Climate Liars 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 185
Refreshing Honesty From LNG Exec: "Let's Plant A Few Trees And Call That An Offset, That Was All Bullshit" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 218
At 2.0 - 2.5C Increase, Amazon Basin Hits Tipping Point; After That, 50-70% Of Forest Becomes Savannah,W. Global Impacts 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 149
Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. 4 NNadir Tuesday Saturday 2 305
Deadline Moved To February 2026, But Colorado Basin States Meet, Decide Nothing; Mead at 33% Of Capacity, Powell At 28% 2 hatrack Friday Friday 4 200
100s Of Hectares Of Greece's Iconic Fir Forests Dead Or Dying; Multi-Factor Stress, Including Warming, Is Moving Fast 0 hatrack Friday Friday 10 336
After Shitstain Moved To Destroy Key Climate & Weather Lab, CO Senators Destroyed HHS & Defense Appropriations Bill 0 hatrack Friday Friday 15 251
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 7 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Friday 5 479
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 - James Hansen et. al 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 213
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans' Energy Bills, Report Says 2 douglas9 Friday Friday 5 246
Scientific Study: UK Government Must Prepare For "Plausible" Worst-Case Climate - 4C Hotter, Seas 2 Meters Higher 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 220
Analysis Suggests That Proposed UK Data Center Could Use Up To 50 Times As Much Water As Admitted 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 161
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge 5 Brenda Tuesday Friday 5 422
Plan To Build Extension Of Bilbao Guggenheim In UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve Scrapped After Local Opposition 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 147
Shitstain Orders Another Coal Power Plant To Remain Online To Meet "Energy Emergency" That Does Not Exist 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 225
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes 2 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 4 176
US Fish and Wildlife Service sees nearly 20% drop in staff since Trump took office 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 4 159
Study - CO2 Emitted By AI Industry Now Exceeds The Output Of New York City; Already 8% Of Global Aviation CO2 Output 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 246
UK Met Office Projects 2026 Temperatures At 1.4C Over Preindustrial Averages, Among 4 Hottest Yrs On Record 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 2 159

Environment & Energy Continued...

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One Big Factor Driving Spiking Utility Prices - Expanding Exports Of American Natural Gas 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 261
Invasive Quagga Mussels Wreak Havoc In Lake Geneva, Slow Technology/Data Center To A Crawl 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 264
Woods Hole Study - Avg Rate of US Sea-Level Rise Has More Than Doubled Since 1900 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 219
Damn president is calling for NCAR to close! 3 Laffy Kat Wednesday Thursday 23 521
Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 4 161
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado 5 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 7 1316
The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show 2 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 34 682
Bipartisan Michigan Bill Would Repeal Incentives For Data Centers Passed In 2024 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 179
10/24 - 9/25 - Arctic Temperatures Highest In 125 Year Instrumental Record; 10/10 Hottest Years In Last 10 Years 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 174
European Alps' Glaciers Will Hit Peak Loss Rate By 2033; More Than 100 Will Have Disappeared By That Date 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 182
Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 299
130-Year-Old Dam Indian Dam Straining Under Pressure Of A Whole New Climate; 75,000 In Path Of Possible Flood 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 329
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected 1 marmar Tuesday Tuesday 12 322
The Next El Nino (bad news) 1 Brenda Tuesday Tuesday 8 409
Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost 2 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 8 280
My Snow Blower Batteries Are in the Garage Recharging. Guess What Isn't Charging Them on the PJM Grid? 4 NNadir Dec 14 Dec 15 4 592
Anyone experienced with desalination of brackish groundwater? 6 surfered Dec 14 Dec 15 1 350
Eight UK Universities Commit To Cut Recruiting Ties With Fossil Fuel Industries; 12% Of UK Institutions Have Done So 0 hatrack Dec 15 Dec 15 3 219
Fracking Chickens Come Home To Groundwater Roost In Permian Basin As Ground Shifts And Toxins Erupt From Abandoned Wells 0 hatrack Dec 15 Dec 15 17 516
Veteran environmental legislator David Bulova selected as Virginia's next resources secretary 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 14 Dec 14 2 220
A BOE Estimate of Deaths Connected with Coal Combustion in Wyoming. 4 NNadir Dec 11 Dec 14 3 571
2025: The Year the US Gave Up On Climate, and the World Gave Up On Us 1 douglas9 Dec 14 Dec 14 9 404
Murkowski "Concerned" W. New Plan To Open Nearly All Of Offshore Alaska To Oil Drilling 8 hatrack Dec 7 Dec 14 9 546
States W. Deepest Cuts To Environmental Protection Programs 2010-24: MS - 71%; SD - 61%; AL - 49%; TX - 33%; MT - 32% 1 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 13 7 374
A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide 1 OKIsItJustMe Dec 13 Dec 13 12 2246
A new approach to carbon capture could slash costs 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 13 Dec 13 4 256
EPA erases human-induced climate change from its webpages: 2 applegrove Dec 10 Dec 13 6 296
Judge blocks massive logging project in southern Montana 1 douglas9 Dec 12 Dec 12 10 362
Sharks and rays get a major win with new international trade limits for 70+ species 1 marmar Dec 12 Dec 12 7 262
WH Abruptly Cancels Meeting On FEMA's Future After Leaked Report Showed Plans To Gut The Agency 4 hatrack Dec 12 Dec 12 14 562

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Analysis Of 25 Years Of Lies And Greenwashing On Climate Collapse From Four Of Planet's Biggest Oil & Gas Companies 1 hatrack Dec 12 Dec 12 10 397
Opposition To Climate Risk Ratings For Real Estate Listings Exemplifies The "La La La La I Can't Hear You!!!" Era 1 hatrack Dec 12 Dec 12 8 341
Nearly 80,000 Residents Under Evacuation Orders In Washington; Skagit River Valley Facing "Historic" Flooding 0 hatrack Dec 12 Dec 12 3 334
Inside the Minds of People Who Knowingly Destroy the Planet ("Green Crime" - a book by a *Criminal Psychologist*) PsyTdy 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 11 Dec 11 6 328
2/3 Of Grazing On Public Land (For Next To Nothing) Benefits 10% Of Grazing Permit Holders, As Land Health Deteriorates 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 6 395
Fishing, Shipping & Hurricane Prediction Depend On NOAA's Ocean Buoy Network; Underfunded, It's At Risk Of Going Dark 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 7 302
After 60 Years Of Science, Last US Research Ship Leaves Antarctic Waters - Permanently; Potential Replacement Years Away 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 9 424
IAEA assesses Chornobyl drone damage 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Dec 11 3 244
I notice the NREL study on creating a 100% clean grid by 2035 has been purged 7 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 3 2835
First Fuel Produced for the Idaho National Lab's Experimental Molten Salt Reactor. 4 NNadir Dec 10 Dec 10 3 444
They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries' climate effort predicts support for climate policies 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 1 229
Excessive Heat Harms Young Children's Development, Study Suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 1 209
2024 Set A Record for the Most Electricity Generated by Nuclear Power. 0 NNadir Dec 10 Dec 10 6 306
Caribbean Reefs Have Lost 48% Of Hard Corals Since 1980; 2023-24 Heatwave "Most Destructive Ever" In Region 1 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 7 369
Days After CRAP-30 Ended, Brazil Gutted Amazon Protections: Level A Forest? No Problem - We'll Legalize It Later! 0 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 9 459
Copernicus: "Virtually Certain" That 2025 Will End Up As 2nd- Or 3rd-Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 4 346
November 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 426.46 ppm; November 2024: 423.85 ppm; November 2023 420.46 ppm 6 hatrack Dec 8 Dec 9 8 429
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says 0 muriel_volestrangler Dec 9 Dec 9 7 267
Streets Named After Birds Boom In UK - 356% For Skylarks, 156% For Starlings; Actual Bird Counts Continue To Collapse 2 hatrack Dec 6 Dec 8 6 284
A Rather Interesting Molten Salt. 2 NNadir Dec 7 Dec 7 4 529
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