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'A powder keg': Lawsuit claims TX co knowingly built dangerous battery plant at Moss Landing leading to major toxic fire 1 Caribbeans Feb 28 Mar 1 3 446
Local residents outraged by new plans for massive area teeming with life: 'He's fixated' 13 Judi Lynn Feb 28 Mar 1 60 2598
AP: New stove that plugs into a normal wall outlet could be major gain for health and the climate 10 OKIsItJustMe Feb 28 Mar 1 12 767
🌈 Hawai'i Statewide Energy Flowcharts! Love 'em. 🌺 2 CoopersDad Feb 27 Feb 28 3 410
Imagine That! More Than Half The Jury In ND Greenpeace Pipeline Trial Have Direct Ties To Oil & Gas Industry 6 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 540
Market conditions caused natural gas rates to increase 128% since December 15 SleeplessinSoCal Feb 25 Feb 28 3 940
Sinking Island Nation Of Nauru Unveils Trump-esque Plan To Sell Citizenships, Ostensibly To Pay To Relocate Its Citizens 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 364
UK Government Boosts Its Climate Commitment W. Support Of New Runways At Heathrow AND Gatwick Airports 0 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 2 298
Nearly 10% Of Planet's Oceans Hit Record High Temps In 2023-24; Add-On Impacts, Especially Storms, Cost Billions 1 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 5 304
Biodiversity Convention Completes Tepid Agreement; Meanwhile, It's 2025 & Global Wildlife #s Have Fallen 70% In 50 Yrs 0 hatrack Feb 28 Feb 28 3 249
EPA backtracks on Trump comment about cutting staff by 65% but says major spending cuts are coming 0 Eugene Feb 28 Feb 28 1 263
Sen. Whitehouse Calls Out Republicans' "Shameful" Repeal of Methane Emissions Regulation -,Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Feb 27 Feb 28 8 348
Kind of old, Dec 19, but may be of interest: Orlando aerospace facility lithium powder fire 0 Beringia Feb 27 Feb 27 2 317
Scientists' stunning observation of hybrid 'grolar' bear sparks concern: 'Ill-suited to adapt' 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 27 Feb 27 13 574
H5N1: 160 Million+ Wild/Domestic Birds Sick, Dead Or Culled Since Outbreak Began; Warming Also Powering Epidemic 5 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 9 512
Luxury home at risk of tumbling into Cape Cod Bay over removal dispute is demolished 10 FakeNoose Feb 27 Feb 27 9 769
2/25/25 Drought Monitor: Level 3-4 Drought Reaches From San Diego To S-Central TX; Northern Plains Drying Fast 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 7 351
In Addition To TX/NM Outbreak, Three Cases Of Measles Confirmed In New Jersey; All Three Unvaccinated 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 11 478
BP Abandoned Plans For An Energy Transition, Because The Energy Transition Wasn't Happening Fast Enough 2 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 1 342
Tim Kaine Calls Toddler-In-Chief Out For His Bullshit "Energy Emergency" Declaration; Senate Resolution Fails, Of Course 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 13 586
Venezuela's Last Glacier Disappeared In 2024; Colombia Likely Next, Though Ice Will Take A Few Decades To Vanish 1 hatrack Feb 27 Feb 27 4 332
"Payback Time for Big Oil Billionaires:" Sen. Whitehouse Slams Trump's "Energy Emergency" - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 6 Rhiannon12866 Feb 26 Feb 26 8 517
Fires Rage In Argentinian Patagonia As Millei Cuts Funding, Targets Indigenous Groups For "Arson" 3 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 339
EPA chief eyes 65% workforce reduction, Trump says 0 Eugene Feb 26 Feb 26 3 352
'Fishing boat for energy' will make hydrogen as it sails 0 Caribbeans Feb 26 Feb 26 4 400
Brazil Unveils World's First Ethanol-to-Hydrogen Station 0 Caribbeans Feb 26 Feb 26 3 363
Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate 0 cbabe Feb 26 Feb 26 11 384
A Ruthless New Predator Is Moving Into the Arctic--And Scientists Are Sounding the Alarm 5 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 33 1822
Tool Monkeys!! Fuck Yeah!! BP Announces Plan To Increase Oil Ouput To 2.3-2.5 Million Barrels/Day By 2030 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 2 395
Study: Earth's Plants And Soils' Ability To Absorb CO2 Has Been Declining Since 2008, Averaging .25% Per Year 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 6 280

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Shocked, Shocked!! EPA & CDC Websites Tracking Pollution Go Dark; Had Been Used To Monitor Grok, SpaceX Operations 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 2 313
Despite Expectations Of 10-Fold Increase In Mileage, Shitstain Rolls Back CO2 Pipeline Rules Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Feb 26 Feb 26 4 293
Melting glaciers threaten global water security 1 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 6 360
Massive new source of leaking methane gas emissions discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 26 Feb 26 8 518
A paper with a sort of scary title: Adaptive Mitigation of Warming-Induced Food Crisis and Nitrogen Pollution 0 NNadir Feb 26 Feb 26 2 331
Milestone for BMW Group transport logistics: Full speed ahead with the first hydrogen trucks 1 Caribbeans Feb 25 Feb 26 0 365
Kellogg's Unveils UK's First Hydrogen-Powered Cereal Production 2 Caribbeans Feb 25 Feb 25 1 358
Greenpeace says its future is threatened by Texas pipeline company's lawsuit 2 TexasTowelie Feb 25 Feb 25 2 374
University Of Exeter Actuarial Study; w/o Huge Emission Cuts, Half Of Global GDP Will Go Away By 2070 3 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 7 410
W. Shitstain 2.0 Up And Running, US Officials No-Shows Even For Routine Climate/Environment Meetings @ UN And Elsewhere 1 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 8 406
UN Biodiversity Talks Open In Rome, Assuming Anyone's Going: Ministerial-Level Attendees Largely MIA 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 6 256
Central Chile's Mediteranean Forests In Trouble; Drought, Fire And Warming Threaten 40% w. Near-Term Collapse 0 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 5 264
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm (an old story that's gotten worse) 4 progree Feb 24 Feb 24 10 593
Shocked, Shocked!! BP Abandoning 2030 Renewable Goals - Back To Oil & Gas, Investors Will Hear This Week 1 hatrack Feb 24 Feb 24 6 385
Vehicle Brake Dust Could Be More Harmful Than Diesel Exhaust to Your Lungs 3 Judi Lynn Feb 24 Feb 24 4 369
Komatsu Begins Proof-of-Concept Tests for World's First Hydrogen-Powered Large Dump Truck 0 Caribbeans Feb 24 Feb 24 3 302
South Korea confirms need for new nuclear reactors 2 NNadir Feb 22 Feb 24 2 343
Two short-beaked dolphins spotted in East River, New York 4 Beringia Feb 24 Feb 24 12 417
111F In Rio - 31F Over February Averages; Brazil's 2nd- Largest City Experiencing One Of Its Driest Februaries On Record 0 hatrack Feb 24 Feb 24 5 274
Science In The National Park System Taking A Hit From Employee Firings 0 Judi Lynn Feb 24 Feb 24 8 299
The Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa Stretches Further and Deeper into 2025. 2 NNadir Feb 23 Feb 23 5 461
Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready? 0 cbabe Feb 23 Feb 23 9 621
1 Week Since Disastrous WV Flood; 94% Of State's Communities At High Risk Of Flooding 2 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 3 462
2024 Houston Storm Showed That Skyscrapers Built To Withstand Hurricanes Highly Vulnerable To Derechos 1 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 4 861
Shitstain's Energy Secy At Jordan Peterson's Climate Liars' Confab - UK Net-Zero "A Sinister Goal", Need More Coal 1 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 4 301
Divers Report Widespread Bleaching In Western Australia's Ningaloo Coral Reefs; 2nd Episode In 3 Years 0 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 5 274
After Decades Of Death And Toxins, Italy May Finally Deal W. Mafia's Lucrative Illegal Dumping Racket 0 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 6 343
A PA Landfill Polluted Streams For Decades; Fracking Waste Is Making It Even Worse 1 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 7 440
Southern Ocean Wave Heights Up By 1 Foot 1985-2018; Wave Energy Up By 8% Since The 1980s 0 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 7 304
"Clean Energy Leaders" Like Microsoft Just Love Natural Gas - Because Without AI, We're All Going To Die, Apparently 0 hatrack Feb 23 Feb 23 2 337

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The "I'll Sue You If You Say My Science Is Full of Shit," Full of Shit 100% Wind and Solar Stanford Fool Chants On. 0 NNadir Feb 23 Feb 23 5 528
Debunking Common Oil and Gas Myths 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 23 Feb 23 3 353
Taxpayers' cash ploughed into wooden bottles in net zero drive 4 OnlinePoker Feb 22 Feb 23 4 483
Salmon seen in California's North Yuba River for first time in almost a century 0 Cattledog Feb 22 Feb 22 15 349
Modern Humans Evolved During Glacial & Interglacial Periods - Earth Had Ice For Only 13% Of Past 485 Million Years 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 10 416
Nigel Farage Trots Out "I'm Not A Scientist" Line After Holding Forth At Global Climate Liar Confab 2 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 3 382
Ultrafine Particle Pollutants Delay Neurological Cell Differentiation. 0 NNadir Feb 22 Feb 22 7 317
What Will Our Physical Legacy Be? Layers Of Plastic, Middens Of Chicken Bones And Aluminum Cans, Lots Of Concrete 4 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 6 388
President Tantrum Orders GSA To Shut Down 3,300 EV Charging Points Across Multiple Federal Agencies 4 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 3 608
In 2024, 65% Of The Planet's Surface Experienced At Least One Month Of Record Breaking Heat 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 5 251
Absurd, Repressive UK Anti-Protest Measures Target Climate Activists, Leave Others Largely Untouched 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 4 239
March 2025 - 67th Anniversary Of The Start Date For Charles Keeling's Direct CO2 Measurement Series 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 2 212
American Physical Society - Cutting Emissions Likely Simpler, Far Cheaper Than Any "Carbon Removal" Technology 0 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 1 323
Northeastern State Fire Services Bracing For The Worst After Multiple Fires In Fall 2024 1 hatrack Feb 22 Feb 22 3 279
Another fire at Moss Landing battery facility raises health and air quality concerns 1 Caribbeans Feb 21 Feb 22 3 343
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings 6 douglas9 Feb 22 Feb 22 4 847
GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences - Natural hydrogen: a sustainable energy source in mountain ranges 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 21 Feb 21 1 229
Princeton: Dincă Lab demonstates high-performance Sodium-ion cathode for new battery technology 0 OKIsItJustMe Feb 21 Feb 21 2 238
Billionaires Dumping Sewage HERE Is Destroying Our Beaches 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 21 Feb 21 5 534
Langur monkeys grieve over fake monkey Spy in the Wild - BBC 1 Uncle Joe Feb 21 Feb 21 14 449
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