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Fucking Brazil Prepares To Unveil Another Fucking Carbon Offset Proposal At Fucking Climate Summit 1 hatrack Thursday 8 hrs ago 6 194
Be like Andrew: 1 applegrove 11 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 10 200
4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 2 hatrack 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 15 229
Bureau Of Meteorology: October 2025 Will Be Hottest October Ever For Queensland, Northern Territory 0 hatrack 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 1 94
Since 20 January 2025, Average Electricity Prices In The United States Have Increased 11% 0 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 1 119
No Administration Delegation Will Attend CRAP-30; Former State Dept: "Most Countries Would Prefer There Be No US" 0 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 3 159
Govt Shut Down, But BLM Busy Issuing Drilling Permits, While Some EPA Staff Work To Cut Mercury Rules 0 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 3 115
FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 2 108
UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Tuesday 13 hrs ago 12 275
The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 9 286
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 Yesterday 23 hrs ago 12 244
Trump Cuts Mean USFS Increasingly Unable To Perform Fuels Reduction - i.e. Unable To Cut Risks Of Massive Fires 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 240
Shitstain Admin Pushes 10 Million More Tons Of Toxic Releases Across Gulf States From Plastics, Pesticides, Oil Refining 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 183
All 7 Operational US LNG Terminals Violated Clean Air Act; Compliance Even For 1 Quarter Unusual At Multiple Sites 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 134
From The "No Shit!?!" Files - AI/Crypto/Datacenter Buildout Making Already Elusive Emissions & Climate Goals Impossible 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 162
Toxic Oil & Gas Wastewater Literally Pouring Out Of Ground; OK State Regulators Failed To Do Anything About It 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 165
Inside Edition & CBS News Investigation Finds Spider Monkeys For Sale 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 2 168
Melt ponds in permafrost develop their new microbiomes. It is not clear how 0 applegrove Thursday Thursday 9 217
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. 1 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 8 205
EV Plants, Solar Farms, Battery Factories - Abandoned Energy Projects Cost 20,000 Jobs, +/- 15,000 In Trump States 1 hatrack Wednesday Thursday 5 252
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 Wednesday Wednesday 5 268
Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 8 306
27 Beach Houses Have Collapsed On NC Outer Banks Since 2020; 15 In Last Month 5 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 13 394
Electricity Prices and Percentage of Energy Provided by Nuclear Energy in US States. 0 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 9 308
NOAA Pilots & Scientists Flew Into Melissa's 185 MPH Winds w/o Pay - 2 Flights Had To Abort 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 14 393
Corpus Christi - One Of Largest GOM Oil Refining Hubs - Faces Level 1 Water Emergency By Late 2026 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 278
US Billionaires Emit A Rhino's Weight Of Carbon Every Day; A Somali Citizen, That Of A Small Tomato 4 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 278

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Less Than 1/3 Of Nations Give CRAP-30 Emissions Commitments; US Has, But w/o Even Remote Possibility Of Keeping Its Word 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 202
Trump SCHEME BACKFIRES as DEADLY SCENARIO Surfaces - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 4 504
For Oz Oceans, "The Past Is No Longer A Good Guide To The Future" - Impacts By 2040 Well Beyond Worst Seen Through 2015 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 160
The Biggest Long-Term Climate Threat To Municipal Finances Isn't Hurricanes Or Floods - It's Drought 2 hatrack Monday Tuesday 2 193
ExxonMobil Sues California, Claiming That Disclosure Of GHG Output Hurts Its First Amendment Rights 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 296
1 Year After Hundreds Died Before Flood Warnings Went Out, 50,000 March In Valencia To Demand Regional President Resign 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 263
Christopher Ketcham: Eat, Pray, Pollute 0 jfz9580m Tuesday Tuesday 1 329
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Heads For Jamaica with catastrophic and life-threatening flooding - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 2 Rhiannon12866 Monday Tuesday 7 236
As Powell's Long-Term Drought Grinds On, Beavers Making Strong Comeback In Side Canyons, Rebuilding Habitat & Ecosystems 1 hatrack Monday Monday 8 308
Tar Sands "Carbon Capture" Boosters Strangely Absent At Trade Show; Also Absent - Any New Project Announcements 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 249
Just In Time For CRAP-30: Your Complete Guide To Industrial Agriculture's Greenwashing Phrases 0 hatrack Monday Monday 4 305
Shitstain, FF Majors & GOP AGs Pushing Hard To Destroy Ability of State & Local Govs To Sue Over Climate Damages 0 hatrack Monday Monday 5 274
Ohnoanyway - Automakers, Utilities, FF Companies "Concerned" By Pending Erasure Of EPA Core Climate Rule 0 hatrack Monday Monday 4 245
Russia Detains 70-Year-Old Ukrainian Scientist W. "Treason" Accusations: His Crime - Opposing More Krill Fishing 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 254
Melissa Edging Towards Category 5; Likely 2B Worst Hurricane Ever To Hit Jamaica w. 1 Meter Or More Of Rain Possible 0 hatrack Monday Monday 9 266
AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants 5 question everything Oct 24 Sunday 7 353
Trump claims ​'wind mills' kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 3 douglas9 Oct 24 Sunday 11 399
What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Saturday 58 1957
Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 2 hatrack Oct 23 Saturday 4 326
A Paper For Our Times: Toxic Ignorance Cycles 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 4 332
How the search for an extinct bird from Iceland led researchers to Cincinnati - WCPO 9 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 24 Saturday 4 267
Steve Bannon & Rebekah Mercer Funded Report On Terror Groups Like League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Sunrise 3 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 11 456
+/- $1 Billion In Tax Breaks In 10 Years Wasn't Enough For TX LNG Company; Local Official Suggested They Pay More, Fired 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 3 273
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling 1 Dulcinea Oct 24 Oct 24 5 274
Nature: Despite Greenwashing, FF Companies Own 1.42% of Renewable Capacity, Producing 0.1% Of Their Energy Output 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 2 259
2 Years Since Iowa's Water Quality Monitoring System Got State Support; Polk County Commits $200K To Keep Network Alive 0 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 1 213
World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 10 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 24 11 433
Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 23 Oct 23 12 268
Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide 2 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 23 6 238
Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack Oct 23 Oct 23 68 2334

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 23 5 241
Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 3 191
Since NOAA No Longer Tracks Disaster Costs, Former Employees Do; So Far In 2025, $101 Billion In US Losses 1 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 2007
AI Data Centers Bringing Blackouts Lasting Days, Water Shortages Lasting Weeks, And Public Fury 7 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 62 1940
New Shitstain Rule Will Cut Safety Reviews For Asbestos, Dioxin, Formaldehyde; States To Lose Authority To Restrict Them 5 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 422
Life Cycle Analysis, Carbon and Health Risks of Wind Turbine Blade Waste. 3 NNadir Oct 21 Oct 22 1 383
Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 22 Oct 22 4 270
American e-waste is causing a 'hidden tsunami' in Southeast Asia, watchdog report says 0 douglas9 Oct 22 Oct 22 2 264
Why America's Tiny Ocean Defies Geography 0 Uncle Joe Oct 22 Oct 22 15 611
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024 2 muriel_volestrangler Oct 22 Oct 22 1 301
Infectious Diseases (CWD & EHD) Hammering Deer Populations In Multiple Midwestern States 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 11 348
One Of Vance's "Closest Friends" - Neurologist w/o Any Leadership Background - Dodges Hiring Freeze To Run NIH Dept. 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 8 370
GOP-Led Public Service Comm In Georgia Pushing For 10 GW New Generation - 80% For AI, W. Ratepayers Footing The Bill 9 hatrack Oct 19 Oct 21 9 449
CO2 Uptake By Amazon Forests Falters; Atmospheric CO2 Content Spikes, Satellite Providing These Data May Be Shut Down 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 9 200
New: 1,000s Of Positions Eliminated/ Furloughed, Mostly @ EPA & Interior; Science, EE, Pollution/Toxics Law Enforcement 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 6 246
October Heat Records Fall In Queensland And NSW As Sydney Suburbs Push 40C; Statewide, 32 Bushfires In NSW ; 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 4 211
For The First Time In More Than 1,000 Years Of Human Habitation, Mosquitoes Found In Iceland 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 6 329
Delhi Kicks Off Smog Season Shrouded In Fireworks Smoke After Diwali; AQ Index Above 500 - 10X "Healthy" Level 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 3 220
Sure, Why Not!! Just In Time For CRAP 30, Brazil Greenlights Oil Drilling At The Mouth Of Amazon River 0 hatrack Oct 21 Oct 21 3 297
Permafrost thawed by climate change threatens remote villages in Alaska - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 20 Oct 20 5 239
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