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2026 GOP Budget Would Close NOAA Hurricane Research Center, Along w. More Than A Dozen Research/Forecast Sites Across US 3 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 8 392
UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs 3 usonian Aug 9 Aug 9 13 529
Study - Atmospheric Rivers May Be Declining In Western States, Gathering Strength Farther East 1 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 9 450
Why The Fine Print Is Fine: BlackRock's "Sustainability" Goals Don't Mean A Thing; FF Investment Marches Right Along 2 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 5 434
Who's Helping JBS And Other Mega Beef Producers Greenwash Meat? The Nature Conservancy And WWF, Among Others 0 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 10 517
GOP 2026 Budget Bills Will Gut Environmental Agencies: 23% Of EPA Funding Eliminated, 6% Each For National Parks, FWS 1 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 3 381
OpenAI Chat GPT Will Save The World, But Altman And Company Won't Release Energy Use Of Updated Versions 1 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 5 383
Zeldin's EPA And Its Farcical GHG Policy Will Likely Face A Supreme Court Decision, Though Not For Years 0 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 4 361
So Cute!! 80% Of Registered Voters, And 58% Of Conservatives, Oppose Elimination Of Climate Research 0 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 19 532
Nearly 7,000 Angelenos Evacuated As Canyon Fire Grows; Another 14,000 Warned To Be Ready To Leave 0 hatrack Aug 9 Aug 9 9 419
Across China: Hydrogen energy fuels China's green shift - Xinhua 0 Caribbeans Aug 9 Aug 9 0 308
Fortescue cancels $550 million hydrogen hub project in Buckeye 4 NickB79 Aug 4 Aug 8 3 456
Climate Journalist on EPA's Actions Under Trump and Their Impact - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 8 Aug 8 3 292
ConEdison Seeking 11% Rate Hike As It Cuts Off A Record Number Of Customers - 88,000 For Jan-June 2025 0 hatrack Aug 8 Aug 8 2 388
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, photos show sea animals returning to battered reefs. Can recovery happen? 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 8 Aug 8 3 318
Interior secretary announces end to Lava Ridge wind project in Idaho 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 8 Aug 8 2 353
The World's Largest Deforestation Project 3 muriel_volestrangler Aug 8 Aug 8 13 463
National Academies Of Sciences Will Self-Fund Review Of Current Climate Science In Response To EPA Dumping GHG Finding 0 hatrack Aug 8 Aug 8 8 306
Per Rupert Murdoch And A Disgraced Academic, Australia's Reefs Are Healthier Than Ever - Really, They're Doing GREAT!!! 0 hatrack Aug 8 Aug 8 4 282
Englands's Swimming Sites 5X More LIkely To Be Polluted Than Rivers And Beaches In EU Nations 0 hatrack Aug 8 Aug 8 2 268
Scientists decry Trump energy chief's plan to 'update' climate reports: 'Exactly what Stalin did' 3 mdbl Aug 8 Aug 8 7 435
EU Nations Face New World Of Fires; Natural Forests The Best Defense, Monocultures Fatally Vulnerable 0 hatrack Aug 8 Aug 8 4 266
15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. 0 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 Aug 8 8 615
Blue whales have gone silent. Why that has scientists worried about Earth's biggest animals ... and the ocean 12 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 7 Aug 8 47 1535
Blue whales, many other species threatened by krill fishery. Despite sustainability promise, Costco sells krill oil. 0 LT Barclay Aug 8 Aug 8 4 1406
Wildflowers as revolution: 35 applegrove Aug 7 Aug 7 55 2270
This Massive Hydrogen Vehicle Just Conquered the Saudi Alps. Yes, That's a Thing 1 Caribbeans Aug 7 Aug 7 3 1555
Fire In Southern France Burned Area Bigger Than Paris In Less Than 24 Hours; 2nd Biggest Fire In French History 0 hatrack Aug 7 Aug 7 7 359
Oil & Plastics Lobbyists Outnumber These Groups At UN Conference: Scientists, Tribal Members, All Eu Delegates 0 hatrack Aug 7 Aug 7 10 289
As Florida Citrus Collapse Continues, OJ A Symbol Of Today's Challenges - Obesity, Global Warming And Inflation 0 hatrack Aug 7 Aug 7 6 433

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Well, Well, Well: DuPont Archives Show The Company Knew Plastics Recycling Wasn't Viable 50 Fucking Years Ago 4 hatrack Aug 6 Aug 7 27 1029
Meltwater explodes out of the Greenland Ice Sheet changing assumptions on what is happening under the ice. 13 Tonk Aug 6 Aug 7 51 2364
Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 6 Aug 6 10 1498
Oops! Zeldin's EPA Dumped Key GHG Endangerment Finding, And It May End Up In A Flood Of Lawsuits, State Actions 1 hatrack Aug 6 Aug 6 13 445
Drax Wanted To Shred Sierra N. Forests For Wood Chips, Then Ship Them To Yorkshire, Because They're "Sustainable" 1 hatrack Aug 6 Aug 6 10 502
Is the Northeast overdue for a hurricane? Here's what it would take 0 OnlinePoker Aug 6 Aug 6 3 341
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha: Seeing the Forest for the Trees 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 6 Aug 6 5 295
Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich Explain How the GOP Budget Bill Will Raise Your Energy Prices - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 6 Aug 6 1 323
Bodily contamination concern? Plastics are 'everywhere': Author - MSNBC Reports 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 6 Aug 6 3 299
Hurray. BP Makes Biggest Oil Find In 25 Years Off Coast Of Brazil. Huzzah. Yoicks. Yippee. Hallelujah. 4 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 5 7 487
New York State Unlikely To Hit Either 2030 Or 2040 Climate And Energy Goals 2 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 5 2 380
Air Quality Alerts Stemming From Canadian Wildfires Cover 14 States, Approximately 81 Million Americans 1 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 5 5 341
Study: After Shenango PA Coke Plant Closed, Pediatric Asthma ER Visits Fell 20% Immediately 40% Long-Term 0 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 5 9 334
Grand Canyon North Rim Fire Hits 123,000 Acres; Forest Service Scrambling To Fill Firefighting Positions 0 hatrack Aug 5 Aug 5 6 307
Chevron, Valero in talks to reactivate supply agreement on Venezuelan oil to US, sources say 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 5 Aug 5 1 276
Gifford Fire in California grows to more than 72K acres as firefighters battle blaze 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 5 Aug 5 3 296
Black storm warning paralyses Hong Kong as torrential rain triggers floods and landslides (The rain was not black) 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 5 Aug 5 2 292
Grassley places holds on 3 Trump Treasury nominees (wants wind and solar tax credits continued) 4 Eugene Aug 5 Aug 5 10 516
Iran orders a day of business and office closures to relieve electric grid in heat wave 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 5 Aug 5 1 278
They've been able to reconstruct Cretaceous air composition from fossilized dinosaur teeth, including CO2 levels 0 NickB79 Aug 5 Aug 5 9 381
Plastic pollution responsible for at least $1.5 trillion a year in health costs, study finds - CBS News 3 Rhiannon12866 Aug 5 Aug 5 7 453
EPA to reverse landmark scientific finding on climate change - CNN State of the Union 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 5 Aug 5 1 322
Shein fined E1m in Italy for misleading environmental claims about products 0 Eugene Aug 5 Aug 5 2 247
China: Rockcheck Inks Deal to Deploy 1,000 Hydrogen Trucks in Inner Mongolia by 2026 0 Caribbeans Aug 5 Aug 5 0 279
Rail services in parts of England are cut as tracks disturbed by lack of moisture 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 6 285
West Virginia lawmakers eliminated local authority to regulate data centers and similar projects 0 Eugene Aug 4 Aug 4 2 277
AI Breakthrough at NJIT Unlocks 'New' Materials to Replace Lithium-Ion Batteries 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 4 Aug 4 9 374
The Largest Energy Project in the World: Chinese Dams Threaten Tibet's Yarlung-Tsangpo River 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 4 Aug 4 2 289
Canada wildfires prompt air quality warnings for Upper Midwest, Northeast 11 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 4 Aug 4 5 557
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 4 Aug 4 21 616

Environment & Energy Continued...

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2025 Global Temperature - James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - 15 April 2025 3 OKIsItJustMe Apr 2025 Aug 4 4 738
Lancet - Plastics Damaging Human Health At Every Stage Of Life, Inflicting Incalculable Damage Across Earth's Ecosystems 6 hatrack Aug 4 Aug 4 15 523
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 4 Aug 4 11 447
In TX Flood Zone, Residents Would Like Bodies Removed From Oily Reservoir; Overall State Response Slim To None 7 hatrack Aug 4 Aug 4 14 619
Hottest June And July On Record For Both Japan And South Korea; 104F In Kyoto For First Time On Record 0 hatrack Aug 4 Aug 4 8 264
Oil producer pressure, Trump rollbacks threaten last-chance global plastics treaty 0 Eugene Aug 4 Aug 4 5 266
There's an island off the UK overrun with wallabies - and they're causing chaos 2 NickB79 Aug 3 Aug 4 8 540
The energy source that could survive Trump's attack on California's green ambitions -LA Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 3 Aug 3 5 507
The Effects of Air Pollution on the Output of PV Solar Cells. 0 NNadir Aug 3 Aug 3 4 366
Trump administration cancels plans to develop new offshore wind projects 1 Eugene Aug 3 Aug 3 4 1428
Company scraps plans for Ardmore hydrogen plant 0 NickB79 Aug 3 Aug 3 6 392
Seal Won't Leave His Rescuer! 2 Uncle Joe Aug 2025 Aug 3 18 675
Brazil Turning Over Degraded Rainforest To Scandal-Plagued "Carbon Capture" Industry In Hope Of Partial Regeneration 2 hatrack Aug 3 Aug 3 5 367
China Completes World's Largest Offshore Floating Solar Project, Leaving U.S. Engineers Stunned 4 Caribbeans Aug 2025 Aug 3 10 686
Scientists Map Antarctica's 332 Undersea Canyon Networks; Their Impact On Ice Loss And Climate Collapse Growing Clearer 1 hatrack Aug 3 Aug 3 12 403
Gov. Whitmer "Effectively Ousts" State Utility Board Member Who Had Opposed Rate Hikes, Appoints DTE Ally 1 hatrack Aug 3 Aug 3 8 556
Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected 0 Judi Lynn Aug 3 Aug 3 11 446
Jay Inslee: Trump and Zeldin turn EPA into 'Environmental Pollution Agency' by revoking climate rule - Velshi - MSNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 296
Dangerous wildfire smoke hurting air quality as extreme heat and fire concerns grow 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2025 Aug 2025 2 369
On clean energy, too many Republicans appear to forget that batteries exist 7 LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 435
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