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Lake Powell - Bullfrog Marina Moving Across Channel For At Least 2 Years To Avoid Stranding As Reservoir Drops 2 hatrack May 25 May 25 7 428
A Utility Mega-Merger Is All About Data Centers 0 Brenda May 25 May 25 8 495
UT Governor Apologizes For Being An Asshole When He Slammed Opponents Of Giant Data Center 4 hatrack May 25 May 25 11 559
New Study Highlights Public Health Impacts of Gas Turbine-Powered Data Centers 1 nitpicked May 25 May 25 10 417
A Nice List of Organizations & Unions Supporting New York Governor Hochul's Call for a NY Nuclear Plant. 0 NNadir May 25 May 25 3 359
The Great Lakes States Were Thought To Be "Climate-Proof", But Michigan's Tornado And Flood Trend Proves Otherwise 1 hatrack May 25 May 25 13 599
Parts Of England Will Hit 95F On May 25th - Hottest May Temperature On Record 1 hatrack May 25 May 25 9 363
Shocked, Shocked! BHP - World's Biggest Mining Company - Shitcans Its Loudly Publicized Climate Plan 0 hatrack May 25 May 25 8 381
Everyone Thought Hydrogen Failed -- Here's What They Missed 5 Caribbeans May 23 May 24 7 806
Trump administration removes restrictions on substance banned or restricted by 190 countries 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 24 May 24 12 771
This Canadian Mine Might Release Enough Natural Hydrogen Each Year to Power 400 Homes, Hinting at an Untapped Source of 13 Judi Lynn May 21 May 24 2 785
Sea level rise is swallowing US Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds 3 nitpicked May 19 May 24 28 864
Trump in DEEP TROUBLE as Americans Reach BREAKING POINT - Legal AF 1 Rhiannon12866 May 24 May 24 12 572
Aaaaaand Gov. Hochul Announces Elimination Of 2030 GHG Target From State's Climate Law 9 hatrack May 23 May 24 6 941
We're Saved! Chinese Green Coal Guys Use High Entropy Alloys to Make Hydrogen Electrodes!!!! 3 NNadir May 23 May 23 1 573
Among SpaceX IPO Details: Company Spent $131 Million On Cybertrucks In 2025; Grok Potentially Dangerous; More 6 hatrack May 22 May 23 1 525
AP: Plastic bags don't go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead? 10 AStern May 21 May 23 23 1139
Indoor Air Pollution Is a Bigger Problem Than Most People Realize 1 ajie May 23 May 23 12 597
The Heartland Institute Has A Bold New Plan - Win The AI Race (TM) By Powering It With Coal. Lots And Lots Of Coal! 5 hatrack May 23 May 23 4 496
Nicotine Derived Ionic Liquids For the Removal of Water from Gas Streams. 2 NNadir May 23 May 23 0 576
10,000 UK Properties, 114 Miles Of Road At Risk Of Destruction From Rising Seas & Coastal Erosion - No Plan In Sight 0 hatrack May 23 May 23 6 334
The Clash Between a Giant Coal Plant and Houston's Booming Suburbs 2 mahatmakanejeeves May 23 May 23 4 385
Global rice paddy greenhouse gas emissions have doubled during the past six decades 0 OKIsItJustMe May 23 May 23 3 350
Climate change drives 'emptying' of rural Bhutan 3 OKIsItJustMe May 22 May 23 11 487
602 Dams, Weirs And Sluices Removed From European Rivers And Streams In 2025 - A New Record 4 hatrack May 22 May 22 47 1227
Poland Bought Hydrogen Buses. Then The Fuel Bills Arrived 2 NNadir May 22 May 22 6 696
Cross post from the NJ forum: New Jersey Declares State of Emergency After April Freeze Wipes Out $300M in Crops. 4 NNadir May 22 May 22 8 903
ArcelorMittal to pay record Canada Fisheries Act fine 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 22 May 22 2 326
Holtec and Rwanda advance plans to deploy SMR-300 nuclear reactors. 0 NNadir May 22 May 22 2 493
Electricity Generation from Solar Could Exceed Coal in ERCOT for the First Time in 2026 11 mahatmakanejeeves May 20 May 22 6 817

Environment & Energy Continued...

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'Seed Transfer Zones' will help restore Brazil's degraded land 0 OKIsItJustMe May 22 May 22 1 255
Oops!! Shitstain's Big Oil Plans For Gulf Of Mexico, California, Would Cut Area Available For Military Exercises 0 hatrack May 22 May 22 2 409
Trump's Energy War Causes Affordability Crisis For Millions of Working Americans - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 May 22 May 22 3 303
In my writings here, I will no longer refer to methane, the climate heating driving gas, as "natural gas." 0 NNadir May 22 May 22 3 316
How Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 May 22 May 22 14 507
University of Alberta chemist turns ocean water into an abundant hydrogen source 4 Caribbeans May 21 May 22 6 479
Television news coverage of climate policy is limited and polarized in the US 1 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 22 5 363
NC Beachfront Property Owners Get $50 Million In State Money To Dump More Sand, "Save" Their Stupid Fucking Homes 9 hatrack May 21 May 21 10 689
Colombia's climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 2 559
X-post: UN backs world court climate opinion; U.S. among few to oppose 1 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 1 464
International Energy Agency video: How the Energy Landscape Changed Last Year 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 1 293
The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 21 May 21 8 779
Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits 6 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 488
Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs 7 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 8 830
Indian city records 48.2C temperature as sizzling heatwave empties roads 2 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 4 445
Scientists map which genes are active in a developing seed to build hardier crops 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 5 297
England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn 0 OKIsItJustMe May 21 May 21 6 299
Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972 5 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 5 484
Massive northeast Montana dust storm raises fears of another Dust Bowl era 1 mahatmakanejeeves May 21 May 21 6 473
The Simple Truth: Climate Change is Real - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 May 21 May 21 4 319
IEA: Global EV Outlook 2026 - Emerging battery chemistry and designs 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 21 2 513
Close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as countries and consumers respond to energy crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 5 814
Young Americans demand court halt Trump's biggest rollbacks of pollution protections 2 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 7 390
A gray wolf entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in a century 4 Beringia May 20 May 20 17 632
China is cutting emissions even faster than promised and may already have peaked, study shows 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 3 512
Extreme weather events threaten river ecosystems 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 4 325
Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 327
IEA: Net Zero Emissions by 2050 - Acting now to limit overshoot 6 OKIsItJustMe May 20 May 20 1 714
The UK Is Built For A Climate That No Longer Exists; Heatwaves At/Above 40C Will Span The Country By 2050 1 hatrack May 20 May 20 6 506
BC Ex-Premier Drops Truth Bomb: "We've Spent Billions To Convince Ourselves Carbon Capture Works. It Doesn't Work". 2 hatrack May 20 May 20 10 579

Environment & Energy Continued...

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After Trump Killed Rebates, EPA Now Cites Falling EV Sales As Reason To "Reconsider" (i.e. Kill) Tier 4 Air Standards 2 hatrack May 19 May 20 7 457
South Africa's CHARGE launches off-grid EV stations on Johannesburg-Durban corridor 3 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 20 4 457
Appeals Court Rules That Suit Against Alabama Power Over 600 Acres Of Coal Waste, Groundwater Poisoning To Proceed 0 hatrack May 20 May 20 7 355
Research led by a Royal Holloway academic finds the 50 questions that could protect a vital ecosystem found across...globe 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 291
South Africa's $5.8bn green hydrogen-ammonia project advancing 1 Caribbeans May 19 May 19 3 394
Why Fears Are Growing Over the Fate of a Key Atlantic Current (AMOC) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 14 544
'Foolish' CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn 1 Eugene May 19 May 19 2 338
Warming Accelerates Ecological State Shift Along Maine Coast 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 8 351
Extreme Weather Events Accelerating Tidal Wetland Loss 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 287
Hope can inspire climate creativity for action according to new study 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 4 304
Climate report says world won't get as hot as feared but will pass warming limit 0 OKIsItJustMe May 19 May 19 7 434
"Lies", "Unbelievable", "Alternative Reality" All Available In 35-page TVA Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks 1 hatrack May 19 May 19 8 490
Sinton, TX Fighting Corpus Christi Groundwater Plan, Potentially Because It Wants A Data Center Of Its Own 1 hatrack May 19 May 19 5 525
For N. American Beekeepers, Swarming Season Started Nearly 3 Weeks Earlier Than In 2025 (After Record Dieoff) 0 hatrack May 19 May 19 5 410
Australia's Federal Biodiversity Funding Falling To 0.04% Of Budget; "Nature Markets" Flop, W. 1 Project Listed 0 hatrack May 19 May 19 2 308
Coal Makes a Comeback, Fueled by War in the Middle East 4 question everything May 19 May 19 4 536
EPA to rescind bans on 4 forever chemicals in drinking water. 3 applegrove May 18 May 18 15 533
Go Pakistan: 1 applegrove May 18 May 18 19 466
Monash University Develops New Membrane To Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Efficiency At High Temperatures In EVs 2 OKIsItJustMe May 18 May 18 2 361
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 1 OKIsItJustMe May 12 May 18 4 408
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