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Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 297

2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 241

Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 6 446

Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 7 301

Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 10 335

"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 16 473

But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 9 3 390

I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 389

NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 403

"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 7 343

Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Nov 8 Nov 8 14 439

Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 4 368

Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 2 235

As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall 0 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 10 263

Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Nov 6 Nov 7 13 365

Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 13 385

Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 12 402

Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 5 365

National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 8 349

188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 4 440

Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 6 6 436

As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 3 301

How Strange! Electricity Prices In California Substantially Higher From Investor-Owned Utilites Than From Public Ones! 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 8 469

Nearly 70% Of New England In Level 2 Or 3 Drought As Flash Droughts Become More Common, Faster 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 9 416

Companies Estimated Their Toxic Output For Decades; Biden Required Monitoring, But Now That's Gone (Of Course) 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 5 226

My Governor to be speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Nov 5 Nov 5 7 309

The Lancet - One Person Dies From Extreme Heat Every Minute; Heat Death Rate Up 23% Since 1990s 1 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 8 409

2018-23: 1.9 Million Home Insurance Policies Went Away; In 2021 & 2022, 18 LA & FL Insurance Companies Insolvent 1 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 7 397

Flyborne Kala-Azar, Fatal If Untreated, On Brink Of Becoming Endemic In Kenya - Thanks In Part To Destruction Of USAID 0 hatrack Nov 5 Nov 5 15 387

Inequities from the Embedded Plastic Flow and Carbon Footprint Transfers in International Trade 0 NNadir Nov 4 Nov 4 3 367

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme 2 OnlinePoker Nov 4 Nov 4 8 364

US strikes $80 billion deal for new nuclear power plants (Reuters) 2 eppur_se_muova Nov 4 Nov 4 5 467

Trump Admin threatens Europeans over green shipping rules: 3 applegrove Nov 3 Nov 4 7 396

Claim: UK Regulator Lets Water Firms Charge Customers Twice To Cover Companies' Failure To Clean Up Their Acts 0 hatrack Nov 4 Nov 4 2 259

"This Is Absurd" - 3% Of International Climate Aid Helps Move People Away From Polluting Industries 0 hatrack Nov 4 Nov 4 4 308

Ecuador Plans to Host a US Military Base in the Galapagos Islands to Fight Drug Trafficking 8 douglas9 Nov 3 Nov 4 7 543

New Wet-Fart Funding From DOE: $100 Million To "Modernize" Coal Plants - A Sliver Of What Serious Plan Would Cost 0 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 4 285

Brazil to blast channel in Amazon river to increase shipping - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Nov 3 Nov 3 6 334

The American Southwest, a film by Ben Masters 4 Beringia Nov 2 Nov 3 7 458

Alabama Power Customers Paid More Than Any Customers In US In 2024; For Very Poor, 1/4 Of Income For Electricity 2 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 7 419

The NPS Had An Employee Whose Job it Was To Seal Leaky Oil Wells In National Parks - Now He's Been Fired 1 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 14 432

For 20 Years, ExxonMobil Paid Climate Liars To Weaken Support For Climate Action Across Latin America 0 hatrack Nov 3 Nov 3 5 303

Black vultures attack and kill cattle. Climate change is one reason they're spreading north 2 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 2 4 414

Bolivia's Cerro Rico Beginning To Collapse; After Centuries Of Silver Mining, It's Riddled With Tunnels 2 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 9 562

Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service 2 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 2 10 565

A note on the scale of CO2 emissions connected with steel manufacture. 0 NNadir Nov 2 Nov 2 3 332

At Least 27 Rare Earth Mines Operating In Laos; Possible Threat To Multiple River Basins, But Hard Data Lacking 0 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 4 308

Per Shitstain Inc., Alaska Is "Open For Business" But Nobody's Buying; State Agency Sole New Oil Leaseholder 0 hatrack Nov 2 Nov 2 11 430

4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 3 hatrack Oct 31 Nov 1 15 421

CSX Derailment Sends 4,000 Gallons Of Diesel & 4,000 Tons Of Coal Into Remote Chickahominy River Wetlands 2 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 11 473

What Does Alberta's Oil Wealth Pay For? Not Education - Alberta Is Dead Last In Per-Pupil Spending Among Provinces 4 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 4 430

Italian Chemical Plant Poisoned Water W. PFAS; After Bankruptcy, It Closed - And Now Operates In India 0 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 6 378

Emergency DOE Order To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Has Cost $80 Million Since May - Customers Across MISO Will Pay 1 hatrack Nov 1 Nov 1 7 370

Pritzker set to sign sweeping battery legislation for renewable 2 applegrove Oct 31 Nov 1 3 313

Fucking Brazil Prepares To Unveil Another Fucking Carbon Offset Proposal At Fucking Climate Summit 1 hatrack Oct 30 Oct 31 6 432

Be like Andrew: 1 applegrove Oct 31 Oct 31 12 336

Bureau Of Meteorology: October 2025 Will Be Hottest October Ever For Queensland, Northern Territory 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 1 209

Since 20 January 2025, Average Electricity Prices In The United States Have Increased 11% 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 1 285

No Administration Delegation Will Attend CRAP-30; Former State Dept: "Most Countries Would Prefer There Be No US" 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 3 304

Govt Shut Down, But BLM Busy Issuing Drilling Permits, While Some EPA Staff Work To Cut Mercury Rules 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 3 231

Environment & Energy Continued...

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FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 2 302

UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Oct 28 Oct 31 12 428

The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 Oct 31 Oct 31 10 414

How Do You Deal With Heat Deaths Caused By Warming? If You're A Right-Wing Think Tank, You Deny They Even Exist 2 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 12 406

Trump Cuts Mean USFS Increasingly Unable To Perform Fuels Reduction - i.e. Unable To Cut Risks Of Massive Fires 0 hatrack Oct 31 Oct 31 5 440

Shitstain Admin Pushes 10 Million More Tons Of Toxic Releases Across Gulf States From Plastics, Pesticides, Oil Refining 1 hatrack Oct 30 Oct 30 8 301

All 7 Operational US LNG Terminals Violated Clean Air Act; Compliance Even For 1 Quarter Unusual At Multiple Sites 0 hatrack Oct 30 Oct 30 5 280

From The "No Shit!?!" Files - AI/Crypto/Datacenter Buildout Making Already Elusive Emissions & Climate Goals Impossible 1 hatrack Oct 30 Oct 30 6 308

Toxic Oil & Gas Wastewater Literally Pouring Out Of Ground; OK State Regulators Failed To Do Anything About It 0 hatrack Oct 30 Oct 30 9 235

Inside Edition & CBS News Investigation Finds Spider Monkeys For Sale 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 30 Oct 30 2 312

Melt ponds in permafrost develop their new microbiomes. It is not clear how 0 applegrove Oct 30 Oct 30 9 316

Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 30 Oct 30 8 328

EV Plants, Solar Farms, Battery Factories - Abandoned Energy Projects Cost 20,000 Jobs, +/- 15,000 In Trump States 1 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 30 5 361

TX Grid Operator Facing 205 Gigawatts Of New Demand From AI - Nearly 4X The Grid's All-Time Peak Demand Of 85.5 GW 8/23 1 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 29 5 391

Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Oct 29 Oct 29 8 469

27 Beach Houses Have Collapsed On NC Outer Banks Since 2020; 15 In Last Month 5 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 29 13 559

Electricity Prices and Percentage of Energy Provided by Nuclear Energy in US States. 0 NNadir Oct 29 Oct 29 9 456

NOAA Pilots & Scientists Flew Into Melissa's 185 MPH Winds w/o Pay - 2 Flights Had To Abort 1 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 29 14 505

Corpus Christi - One Of Largest GOM Oil Refining Hubs - Faces Level 1 Water Emergency By Late 2026 1 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 29 6 442

US Billionaires Emit A Rhino's Weight Of Carbon Every Day; A Somali Citizen, That Of A Small Tomato 4 hatrack Oct 29 Oct 29 11 418

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