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Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 493
Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 13 464
Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 522
Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 442
National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 413
188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 517
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 545
As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 372
How Strange! Electricity Prices In California Substantially Higher From Investor-Owned Utilites Than From Public Ones! 3 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 582
Nearly 70% Of New England In Level 2 Or 3 Drought As Flash Droughts Become More Common, Faster 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 493
Companies Estimated Their Toxic Output For Decades; Biden Required Monitoring, But Now That's Gone (Of Course) 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 292
My Governor to be speaks on energy. 1 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 396
The Lancet - One Person Dies From Extreme Heat Every Minute; Heat Death Rate Up 23% Since 1990s 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 487
2018-23: 1.9 Million Home Insurance Policies Went Away; In 2021 & 2022, 18 LA & FL Insurance Companies Insolvent 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 469
Flyborne Kala-Azar, Fatal If Untreated, On Brink Of Becoming Endemic In Kenya - Thanks In Part To Destruction Of USAID 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 452
Inequities from the Embedded Plastic Flow and Carbon Footprint Transfers in International Trade 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 445
Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme 2 OnlinePoker Nov 2025 Nov 2025 8 446
US strikes $80 billion deal for new nuclear power plants (Reuters) 2 eppur_se_muova Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 624
Trump Admin threatens Europeans over green shipping rules: 3 applegrove Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 496
Claim: UK Regulator Lets Water Firms Charge Customers Twice To Cover Companies' Failure To Clean Up Their Acts 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 317
"This Is Absurd" - 3% Of International Climate Aid Helps Move People Away From Polluting Industries 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 377
Ecuador Plans to Host a US Military Base in the Galapagos Islands to Fight Drug Trafficking 8 douglas9 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 742
New Wet-Fart Funding From DOE: $100 Million To "Modernize" Coal Plants - A Sliver Of What Serious Plan Would Cost 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 361
Brazil to blast channel in Amazon river to increase shipping - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 451
The American Southwest, a film by Ben Masters 4 Beringia Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 584
Alabama Power Customers Paid More Than Any Customers In US In 2024; For Very Poor, 1/4 Of Income For Electricity 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 556
The NPS Had An Employee Whose Job it Was To Seal Leaky Oil Wells In National Parks - Now He's Been Fired 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 505
For 20 Years, ExxonMobil Paid Climate Liars To Weaken Support For Climate Action Across Latin America 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 374
Black vultures attack and kill cattle. Climate change is one reason they're spreading north 2 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 599
Bolivia's Cerro Rico Beginning To Collapse; After Centuries Of Silver Mining, It's Riddled With Tunnels 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 725

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Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service 2 NickB79 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 672
A note on the scale of CO2 emissions connected with steel manufacture. 0 NNadir Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 397
At Least 27 Rare Earth Mines Operating In Laos; Possible Threat To Multiple River Basins, But Hard Data Lacking 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 372
Per Shitstain Inc., Alaska Is "Open For Business" But Nobody's Buying; State Agency Sole New Oil Leaseholder 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 490
4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Nov 2025 15 522
CSX Derailment Sends 4,000 Gallons Of Diesel & 4,000 Tons Of Coal Into Remote Chickahominy River Wetlands 2 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 569
What Does Alberta's Oil Wealth Pay For? Not Education - Alberta Is Dead Last In Per-Pupil Spending Among Provinces 4 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 530
Italian Chemical Plant Poisoned Water W. PFAS; After Bankruptcy, It Closed - And Now Operates In India 0 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 667
Emergency DOE Order To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Has Cost $80 Million Since May - Customers Across MISO Will Pay 1 hatrack Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 446
Pritzker set to sign sweeping battery legislation for renewable 2 applegrove Oct 2025 Nov 2025 3 402
Fucking Brazil Prepares To Unveil Another Fucking Carbon Offset Proposal At Fucking Climate Summit 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 513
Be like Andrew: 1 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 417
Bureau Of Meteorology: October 2025 Will Be Hottest October Ever For Queensland, Northern Territory 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 267
Since 20 January 2025, Average Electricity Prices In The United States Have Increased 11% 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 344
No Administration Delegation Will Attend CRAP-30; Former State Dept: "Most Countries Would Prefer There Be No US" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 382
Govt Shut Down, But BLM Busy Issuing Drilling Permits, While Some EPA Staff Work To Cut Mercury Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 288
FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 361
UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 524
The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 487
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 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 499
Trump Cuts Mean USFS Increasingly Unable To Perform Fuels Reduction - i.e. Unable To Cut Risks Of Massive Fires 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 505
Shitstain Admin Pushes 10 Million More Tons Of Toxic Releases Across Gulf States From Plastics, Pesticides, Oil Refining 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 380
All 7 Operational US LNG Terminals Violated Clean Air Act; Compliance Even For 1 Quarter Unusual At Multiple Sites 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 342
From The "No Shit!?!" Files - AI/Crypto/Datacenter Buildout Making Already Elusive Emissions & Climate Goals Impossible 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 383
Toxic Oil & Gas Wastewater Literally Pouring Out Of Ground; OK State Regulators Failed To Do Anything About It 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 299
Inside Edition & CBS News Investigation Finds Spider Monkeys For Sale 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 369
Melt ponds in permafrost develop their new microbiomes. It is not clear how 0 applegrove Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 391
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 426
EV Plants, Solar Farms, Battery Factories - Abandoned Energy Projects Cost 20,000 Jobs, +/- 15,000 In Trump States 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 430
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 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 453

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 579
27 Beach Houses Have Collapsed On NC Outer Banks Since 2020; 15 In Last Month 5 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 678
Electricity Prices and Percentage of Energy Provided by Nuclear Energy in US States. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 520
NOAA Pilots & Scientists Flew Into Melissa's 185 MPH Winds w/o Pay - 2 Flights Had To Abort 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 14 585
Corpus Christi - One Of Largest GOM Oil Refining Hubs - Faces Level 1 Water Emergency By Late 2026 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 527
US Billionaires Emit A Rhino's Weight Of Carbon Every Day; A Somali Citizen, That Of A Small Tomato 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 512
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 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 342
Trump SCHEME BACKFIRES as DEADLY SCENARIO Surfaces - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 682
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 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 302
The Biggest Long-Term Climate Threat To Municipal Finances Isn't Hurricanes Or Floods - It's Drought 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 384
ExxonMobil Sues California, Claiming That Disclosure Of GHG Output Hurts Its First Amendment Rights 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 489
1 Year After Hundreds Died Before Flood Warnings Went Out, 50,000 March In Valencia To Demand Regional President Resign 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 392
Christopher Ketcham: Eat, Pray, Pollute 0 jfz9580m Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 726
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Heads For Jamaica with catastrophic and life-threatening flooding - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 2 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 417
As Powell's Long-Term Drought Grinds On, Beavers Making Strong Comeback In Side Canyons, Rebuilding Habitat & Ecosystems 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 571
Tar Sands "Carbon Capture" Boosters Strangely Absent At Trade Show; Also Absent - Any New Project Announcements 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 461
Just In Time For CRAP-30: Your Complete Guide To Industrial Agriculture's Greenwashing Phrases 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 584
Shitstain, FF Majors & GOP AGs Pushing Hard To Destroy Ability of State & Local Govs To Sue Over Climate Damages 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 465
Ohnoanyway - Automakers, Utilities, FF Companies "Concerned" By Pending Erasure Of EPA Core Climate Rule 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 419
Russia Detains 70-Year-Old Ukrainian Scientist W. "Treason" Accusations: His Crime - Opposing More Krill Fishing 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 485
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