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LA Fire Chief Warned In 2023 Of Lack Of Wildland Fire Defense; Had To Make Do W. Teenage Volunteers 2 Days Each Week 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 615
Greenwashing Lawsuit Against P&G; Charmin Labeled As "Sustainable" Despite Company Sourcing Pulp From Boreal Forests 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 462
At Least $30 Billion In Insured Losses From LA Fires; 2 Outcomes Are Certain: Higher Premiums And Cancelled Coverage 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 685
Humpback Whale Sightings Spike In Waters Around UK; Population Growth Or Search For Declining Food In Warming Ocean 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 342
Texas The National Test Platform For "Compound Disasters" - As Category 1 Beryl Showed When Houston's Grid Failed 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 472
Word Of The Week: "Panzootic" - As In Bird Flu's Capacity As A Species Jumper 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 483
Yes, A Voluntary, Poorly Benchmarked And Riggable Carbon Market For Plugging Abandoned Oil Wells Will Turn The Tide!! 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 411
Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 567
NOAA withdraws speed rule proposal aimed at protecting endangered whale 0 OnlinePoker Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 410
Oil and gas companies investing in landfills that turn trash into clean fuel - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 502
Do offshore wind farms harm whales? Experts weigh in as Trump labels them 'dangerous' 6 Jim__ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 718
Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 737
CA State-Backed Insurer Warned FAIR Was "One Major Event Away From Insolvency" - And, Well, Here We Are 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 590
Tech Crunch: Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory 2 Dennis Donovan Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 462
Hino (Toyota) Fined $1.6 Billion For Years Of Fraudulent Emissions Data, Smuggling Illegal Engines 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 446
BP Eliminating 7,700 Jobs (5% Of Its Workforce) Because It Made Noises About Greener Energy Sources 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 557
Suriname Hammered By Record Drought; Water Supply, Transportation & Public Health Shutting Down As Rivers Dry Up 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 350
What LA Residents Are Breathing Is Toxic: Mercury, PCBs, Lead From Burned Electronics, Cars & Buildings In The Mix 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 420
Expect Nothing And Worse From Shitstain; It's A Four-Year Big Oil Banquet, And Climate Collapse Doesn't Even Exist 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 415
Rate Of Annual Atmospheric CO2 Increase In 2024 - 3.6 ppm - Was Twice That Needed For Putative 1.5C Goal 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 331
Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 412
Who does the EPA protect? 2 douglas9 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 531
Mitsubishi Drops Plan For 77-Acre Chemical Plant In Lousiana's Cancer Alley Along The Mississippi River 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 559
Author Of "Fire "Weather" - "We Are Going To Have To Let Go Of A Lot Of The 20th Century" 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 759
Climate Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 446
Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss 4 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 794
Meet Your Incoming Energy Secretary - Smugly "Standing By" His Dismissal Of Climate Collapse As 'Hype" 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 585
The Press Makes Sporadic Connections Between Extremes Like LA's Fires And Climate Breakdown - And It's Not Nearly Enough 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 395
'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 498
New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed 3 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1641

Environment & Energy Continued...

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How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 334
I'm A Climate Scientist - My House In LA Burned Down - I Feel Safe Saying We Are Not Thriving On Our Changing Planet 7 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 30 1481
Republican drafting anti-offshore wind order with Trump 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 513
Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright Testifies at Confirmation Hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 401
SCOTUS Declines To Hear Cases On Energy Company Liability, UT Public Lands, Vineyard Wind, Air Pollution 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 575
Statistia: Annual Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1940-2024 (Handy Detailed Graphic) 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 397
Despite Advances In Breeding, Science Consensus Grows That "De-Extinction" Is Likely Impossible 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 559
Not That They Would Have Done Much, But World's Largest Banks Eager To Remove Themselves From Climate Commitments 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 417
Oh Goody!! Liz Truss And Nigel Farage Are Going To Be Part Of A New UK Climate Denial Group, Hosted By Heartland 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 401
Biden administration finalizes US crackdown on Chinese vehicles 2 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 640
Glyphosate-Resistant Weed (Italian Rye Grass) Confirmed On UK Farm: First Such Confirmed Discovery 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 496
Could Keir Starmer's AI dream derail his own green energy promise? 0 muriel_volestrangler Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 364
Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 880
The Pliocene Returns - Oh Well!! Atmosperic CO2 Content Rose 11% 2014-2023; CH4, Nitrous Oxide Also At New Record Highs 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 9 633
Planes are dumping ocean water to fight the Los Angeles fires. Here's why using saltwater is typically a last resort 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 872
Canada's #1 And #3 Banks Expected To Abandon Net Zero Banking Alliance; Mealy-Mouthed Voluntary Process Just Too Much 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 486
Nature - Disappearance Of Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica Is Powering Increased Frequency Of Southern Ocean Storms 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 379
In Face Of Firehose Of Lies & Insults, Newsom Invites Shitstain To Visit LA And See For Himself; No Response Yet 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 532
"Good Old Days" Return To MS In The Form Of Hookworm, Roundworm, Tapeworm; Small Survey Shows 38% Infestation Rate 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 719
LA Fires Pose High Smoke Risk; It's Not Just Massive Particulate Pollution, It's Also Toxins From Burned Cars, Buildings 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 410
Trump's pick to lead EPA, Lee Zeldin, was paid tens of thousands to write op-eds criticizing climate policies and ESG 2 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 476
The Author Is Australian, The Sentiment The Same: Rage Among The Young At What Is Happening Before Their Eyes To Earth 4 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 784
Climatologist Peter Kalmus On Democracy Now - On Why He Left, Why Nothing's Changing And Why The World's On Fire 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 14 822
Weather Modeling Showing No Rain In LA Through January; This Rainy Season, 0.16" Of Precipitation In All 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 472
24 Confirmed Dead So Far, With New Estimates Of LA Fire Damage Totals Around $250 - 275 Billion 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 416
China's first ton-level liquid hydrogen unmanned eVTOL aircraft completes test flight 3 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 742
Colorado agrees to 25-year Moffat Tunnel lease to access Union Pacific tracks for passenger rail 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 507
U.S. Supreme Court squashes Utah's public lands lawsuit 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 583
What Is Not Being Discussed About the LA Fires. 44 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 113 7140
World's Ugliest Lawn 2024 competition won by Tasmanian woman helped by bandicoots and lack of a mower 1 Judi Lynn Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 829

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Why Hydrogen DOES Have a Future 7 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 1405
New York to Make Major Greenhouse Gas Emitters Pay for Past Pollution 1 Think. Again. Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 561
What an ancient ice core from Antarctica can tell us about our climate's past and future - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 649
Why don't we do more prescribed burning? An explainer. 1 usonian Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 653
New research shows a quarter of freshwater animals are threatened with extinction 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 536
John Vaillant: "Fire Is Our Superpower, And We Can Almost Be Forgiven For Believing That We've Mastered It" 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 547
An Interesting Note on Low Energy Industrial Regeneration of Desiccants with Supercritical CO2 0 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 504
Company Has Great System To Make Money In Redeveloping Brownfield Properites - Don't Redevelop Them 3 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 727
NOAA - 2023-24 Global Coral Bleaching Event Is The Largest Ever, Spanning 72 Countries, 74% Of Warm-Water Reefs 2 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 508
Chinese Company Snagged German Govt In $1 Billion Carbon Credit Scam; Agency Outsourced Auditing Of Projects 0 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 532
LA Fires Are Just For Starters: Zuck, Skum, MAGA, Online Shitlords Blaming Diversity For Literally Almost Everything 6 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 916
Let Them Fight! Australian Mining Billionaire Slams Exxon Over Claim That He Smeared Them In Company's Defamation Suit 1 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 576
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States 1 Cattledog Jan 2025 Jan 2025 26 1456
Extraction of Uranium in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Using Incinerable Reagents 3 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 662
Aerial lift makers adopt hydrogen power sources 2 Caribbeans Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 817
Swedish company Orbital Systems reduces water consumption by 90%. 0 crimycarny Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 658
Consultant who called Trump an 'environmental hero' to get environmental job in new administration 2 douglas9 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 564
Continuous Hydrolysis of CuCl2 in the Copper Based Thermochemical Hydrogen Cycle 5 NNadir Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 793
Expect Inertia: Batshit Climate Lies From Trumpworld, Concerned Face Greenwash Chatter From Energy Majors 4 hatrack Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 749
Mega data centers are coming to Minnesota. Their power needs are staggering. 8 NickB79 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 11 1361
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