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Utah Pushes For Residents To Pay More For Electricity, Because Anything Not Coal-Powered Is Woke And Gay 3 hatrack 10 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 7 259
Global Warming Shreds Colorado River Compact As Glen Canyon Dam Nears End Of Hydropower Generation, Possible Deadpool 4 hatrack 9 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 13 395
Thousands advised to stay inside in Mississippi 8 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday 5 hrs ago 72 2567
Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power 2 douglas9 9 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 6 620
3 Weeks After Citizens Sued Dow Over Years Of Plastic Pollution, Company Pushing TX To Legalize That Pollution 0 hatrack 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 6 243
'Humans Riding Bikes Are More Energy-Efficient Than Any Other Animal On The Planet' 5 sop Yesterday Yesterday 20 517
Big Tech Tries To Greenwash AI, Fails - 26% Of Climate Claims Cite Actual Research; 36% Cite No Evidence Whatsoever 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 10 272
In Survey Of 195 US Cities, Average Winters Nine Days Shorter Compared To 1970-1997 Baseline 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 219
98% Of 2,778 Serious UK Water Pollution Incidents Downgraded By Ministry, 83% w/o Site Visits 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 4 242
Dirty Water, Death And Decline - The Inside Story Of UK's Water Privitazation Scandal 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 7 268
NRDC - US Sulfur Dioxide Emissions Up 18% YOY In 2025; 24% Increase For 71 Plants That Requested Pollution Exemptions 2 hatrack Friday Yesterday 4 170
After Hurricane Helene, Cascade Of Health Effects From Mold Spreading Across NC 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 10 311
Shitstain Cutting System Requiring Emergency Plans For High-Risk Chemical Sites; Chemical Safety Board Also Targeted 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 282
2025 US Power Plant Inventory: Sulfur Dioxide Output Up 18%, NOx Emissions Up 7%, CO2 Emissions Up 4% 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 207
'I live in constant fear': surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey's farmers 0 muriel_volestrangler Saturday Saturday 7 296
Study: Emissions Inventories For Colorado OIl & Gas Operations At Least 50% Too Low 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 2 195
Oceanic DDT Off Los Angeles County from 20th Century Chemical Waste Practices. 1 NNadir Friday Friday 5 251
Judge orders protective measures for Columbia River salmon after Trump canceled historic deal 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 7 277
Nearly All US Coal Power Plants Could Have Met Pollution Rules For Toxic Metals; Shitstain's EPA Cut Those Rules Anyway 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 297
Judge says he will order Greenpeace to pay an expected $345 million in oil pipeline protest case 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Friday 4 420
Colorado River Compact In Tatters, Interior Shows That It Will Barely Intervene (If At All) In Fractious 7-State Talks 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 300
More Than A Year Later, No Trace Of $400 Million In USDA Grant To Improve Irrigation Efficiency For AZ Farmers 0 hatrack Friday Friday 4 317
Study: Southern Right Whales Shift Reproduction; Lack Of Food Means 1 Calf Every 4 Years, Not 3 Years 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 200
Emperor Penguins Face Death From Hypothermia During Molt As Sea Ice Disintegrates 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 13 318
"Abysmal Snowpack" Conditions In Rocky Mountain States; Even Average Seasonal Totals Likely Out Of Reach 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 400
For Decades Oil Majors Preempted Local Climate Lawsuits W. Clean Air Act; Now w. End Of Endangerment Finding, They Can't 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 13 317
Survey Of 8,000 Tropical Plant Species Across Continents Shows Flowering Times Now Months Early & Late 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 272
One In Five Marine Products Tied To Fraud - On Species ID, "Fresh", Wild-Caught vs. Farmed, Produced Through Slave Labor 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 351

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Shocked, Shocked: Epstein Class Of Ultrawealthy Among Top Purveyors Of Climate Denial, Ecofascism 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 413
"Staggering" Loss Of N. Hemisphere Marine BIomass: 7.2% Of Fish Populations Per 0.1C Warming Per Decade 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 331
Coral bleaching: How warming seas are transforming the world's reefs 1 Judi Lynn Feb 18 Tuesday 4 284
This is very wonky so I'm putting it here rather than General Discussion. 5 flashman13 Feb 3 Tuesday 17 2873
US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: 'I'm not for sale' 3 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 11 662
U.S. Supreme Court will hear landmark Boulder climate case against oil companies 1 evemac Tuesday Tuesday 5 282
Analysis by Reuters shows AI companies are exaggerating claims about reducing water usage 2 highplainsdem Monday Tuesday 7 305
Channel 4's 4Creative exposes 'The Sick Truth Behind Britain's Sewage Scandal' with bold new fountain installation 3 highplainsdem Monday Monday 4 341
The Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar and Renewables Exposed - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Feb 22 Monday 4 333
Carney's Tar Sands Pipeline Plan Depends On "Carbon Capture"; Notes Show His Gov Knows Little Of Its Unreality 2 hatrack Feb 22 Monday 9 428
Global Warming Bringing "Synchronized Fire Weather" To Multiple Regions Across Earth, Simultaneously And Quickly 2 hatrack Feb 22 Monday 12 413
The nation's largest public utility is going back to coal -- with almost no input from the public 3 douglas9 Monday Monday 12 536
Feds propose opening millions of acres of western Oregon forests to 1960s logging levels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 13 313
Parts Of 3 Australian States Bracing For A Year's Worth Of Rain In One Week From Lingering Monsoon Low 1 hatrack Monday Monday 6 340
Acid Wastewater, Algae Blooms, Fishery Closures, Sonic Booms - FL Pays The Price For Launching Penis Rockets, Satellites 6 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 8 543
295,000+ Acres Burned In SW Kansas So Far; Windy Fire Weather Returning, Though Not As Severe As 1st Round 3 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 6 409
Results Of Destroying The Endangerment Finding For Greenhouse Gases "Cannot Be Overstated" 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 12 348
RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers 3 douglas9 Feb 20 Feb 22 13 488
New Airborne Wind Turbine 0 thought crime Feb 21 Feb 21 10 432
Nature Review: The Dark Side of "Green" Technology. 2 NNadir Feb 11 Feb 21 5 563
NOAA - Near-Earth Space Could Host 60,000 Satellites By 2040; Particles From Reentries Add 1.5C To Upper Atmosphere Temp 2 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 8 378
Ohio Anti-Renewable Bill Would Likely Exclude Coal Generation, Since It Requires Minimum Capacity Factor of 50% 2 hatrack Feb 19 Feb 21 3 358
Trump touts climate savings but new rule set to push up US prices 2 douglas9 Feb 20 Feb 21 4 378
NYT: He Was a Climate Activist. One Day, the F.B.I. Came Knocking. 4 DBoon Feb 20 Feb 21 10 568
Europe Today: Drowning In Winter, Withering In Summer And Clueless On Scale And Impact Of Impending Climate Collapse 1 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 16 461
Shitstain Rolls Back Mercury Limits For Coal Power Plants; 68 Plants Already Got Exemptions By Emailing Their Requests 2 hatrack Feb 21 Feb 21 12 467
Despite court order, a critical FEMA program remains frozen 0 douglas9 Feb 21 Feb 21 8 343
EPA rollbacks on pollution limits could drive up health care costs, advocates warn - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Feb 21 Feb 21 3 234
The epigraph... 1 NNadir Feb 20 Feb 20 5 407
W/O Natural Predators, UK Deer Preventing Forest Regrowth; Gov Will Now Support Culls By Landowners 4 hatrack Feb 20 Feb 20 3 404

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Krakow Was Poland's Smog Capital; After Bans On Coal And Wood In Home Heating, 6,000 Lives Saved In 10 Yrs 1 hatrack Feb 20 Feb 20 8 353
Even In A "Sunburnt Country", Australia Reeling From This Summer's Record Heat And Fire Season 0 hatrack Feb 20 Feb 20 8 347
TVA Had Been An Independent Agency For Decades; Now, They're Blowing Trump And Embracing More Coal 0 hatrack Feb 20 Feb 20 4 331
Is Germany (Quietly) Rejecting the Green Deal? - Good Times Bad Times (The 20s Report) 2 TexasTowelie Feb 9 Feb 20 2 443
Boring Old Local Citizen Action Stops (At Least For Now) Planned Datacenter In Suburban LA Community 3 hatrack Feb 7 Feb 20 8 425
No Snowpack, No Runoff Coming, And New Mexico Legislature Faceplants - Again - In Attempt To Limit GHG Emissions 1 hatrack Feb 19 Feb 19 6 392
MPs Call For End To $2 Million/Day Subsidy For Drax Power Plant; It's "Sustainable", You See, Because Wood Pellets . . . 2 hatrack Feb 19 Feb 19 6 343
Avg. Of Ideal Fire Weather Days - Hot, Dry And Windy - Has Tripled Globally In 45 Years; 12X Increase In S. America 0 hatrack Feb 19 Feb 19 7 225
EU Subsidies For Beef & Lamb Are 580X Greater Than Those For Legumes; For Pork, +/- 240X More 0 hatrack Feb 19 Feb 19 3 245
An Open Sourced Chemical Review on the Removal of Carbon Dioxide Via Seawater. 0 NNadir Feb 18 Feb 18 4 313
European Scientific Advisory Board Urges Member Nations To Prepare For 3C Of Warming By 2100 1 hatrack Feb 17 Feb 18 7 386
Glen Canyon Dam Confonts Potential Loss Of Generating Capacity, Damage To River Outlet Works As Drought Continues 1 hatrack Feb 18 Feb 18 9 493
TX Sues Dow For "Habitual Non-Compliance"; Spoiler - It's A Way For The Company To Avoid A Far Harsher Citizen Lawsuit 1 hatrack Feb 18 Feb 18 8 593
Fish biology inspires laundry microplastics clean up 1 Judi Lynn Feb 18 Feb 18 10 383
Origins of 'gravity hole' over Antarctica finally unveiled 4 Judi Lynn Feb 18 Feb 18 36 1109
Surprise shark caught on camera for first time in Antarctica's near-freezing deep 1 Judi Lynn Feb 18 Feb 18 20 895
Top Five Coffee-Growing Countries Experienced An Average Of 57 Days Of Crop-Damaging Heat/Year From 2021 Through 2025 1 hatrack Feb 18 Feb 18 10 441
Thanks To Global Warming, "Excruciatingly Painful" Chikunyungya Can Now Be Transmitted By Mosquitoes In Most Of Europe 0 hatrack Feb 18 Feb 18 6 411
AI Greenwashing - Plenty Of Unsupported Claims, Along With Conflation Of Traditional With Massive Generative AI 0 hatrack Feb 18 Feb 18 2 365
Greenland sled dog champion fears for his culture as climate change melts the ice 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 17 Feb 17 3 267
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