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Gates Charity Trust Pledged To Divest From Fossil Fuels In 2019; In 2024, $254 Invested In Chevron, Shell, BP 1 hatrack 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 2 289
Scientists Warm Of "Regime Shift" In Oceans As Warming And Pollution Drive Massive Algae Blooms Not Seen Before 2008 0 hatrack 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 6 302
Japan Continues Slow Restart Of Nuclear Power Generation W. Upgraded Unit In Niigata Prefecture 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 4 179
WY - 2024 Worst Fire Year Since Huge Yellowstone Fires Of 1988; State GOP: Cut Property Taxes Funding Fire Response 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 1 236
AK State Legislator Proposes 20 Center/Barrel Tax On State's Oil Production To Cover Costs Of Climate Collapse 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 2 244
"Patchwork" Of Remediation Efforts After LA Fires Shows Widespread Contamination By Lead, Asbestos, Other Toxins 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 3 189
If Biofuels Could Be Interesting, This One Would Top My List. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 2 333
26 Years After Discovery Of Groundwater Contamination From Oil Drilling, The Cleanup Grinds On In Midland Texas 3 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 301
"Comprehensive" Failure Of Shitstain's Pledge To Cut Energy Bills In Half Across US: DC Up 23%, IN Up 17%, IL Up 15% 3 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 247
"Climate Pragmatism" A La Bill Gates Assumes That 3C Won't Be All That Bad; It Will Likely Be Far Worse Than We Imagine 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 250
Little Things Going Away: What Happened To Recurring National Snow & Ice Data Center Updates & Tools 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 238
W. Last Week's Proposed Changes, The EPA Is Eliminating Its Powers To Regulate Pollution And To Protect Human Health 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 218
New Modeling Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss: Imagine 843 Ice Cubes 1 Kilometer Per Side Disappearing Every Year 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 227
Strange How An Economist Won The Nobel Prize For Arguing That We Shouldn't Do "Too Much" To Avert Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 287
27 Engineered Stone Workers Dead From Silicosis In CA Alone In Six Years, So GOP Preparing To Protect Manufacturers 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 13 435
Annual Damages From Global Warming To Planet's Oceans +/- $2 Trillion (Fisheries, Reefs, Infrastructure) 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 277
1 Year After The Moss Landing Battery Fire, EPA Says No Problem, Despite WidespreadToxic Metal Deposition 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 304
Rotten. Crooked. Stupid. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Saturday 10 493
Rep. AOC Highlights Severe Job Loss After Department of Energy Cancels Billions in Energy Projects - Rep. AOC 8 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Friday 8 352
Should We Relax Our Server Contempt If Used to Understand Batteries and Solar Cells? 4 NNadir Thursday Friday 3 326
"Relentless Human-Caused Heat" Continued In 2025 At Or Above 1.5C "Limit"; ESA Projects 1.7C Increase In 2027 2 hatrack Wednesday Friday 8 400
Shitstain Wants To Stop Any And All Coal Plant Shutdowns, Even If They're Falling Apart, Would Cost Billions To Fix 4 hatrack Friday Friday 4 347
Authoritarianism Is Climate Policy - Persuading Voters They'll Be Protected When TSHTF (They Won't Be) 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 278
No Way!!! While Average US Residential Electrical Rates Rose 10% 2022-24, Industrial Rates (AI) Fell 3% 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 19 651
Florida Bill Would Block Any Attempts To Change Land Use/Development Rules That Recognize Reality Of Storms, Rising Seas 8 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 468
India: 10% of India's 150 elephant corridors now non-existent 0 Beringia Thursday Thursday 4 269
Trump's Climate War Breaks the Law - UNFCCC - the treaty that underpins global climate cooperation - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 2 196

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Republicans still won't say it: climate change is real - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 1 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Thursday 3 237
OK, UT Legislatures Working On Immunity For Oil & Gas Companies Against Climate Lawsuits 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 1 266
After 20 Years, Brazil's Moratorium On Deforestation To Grow Soybeans Is Disintegrating 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 3 222
EPA Will Stop Calculating How PM 2.5 & Ozone Cuts Save Lives/Health; Now, Only Costs To Industry To Be Calculated 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 259
"Near-Universal" Opposition To Gigantic AL Data Center; Now Developer Wants Another 900 Acres Rezoned As Industrial 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 368
Thanks, AI!! At Least 15 US Coal Plants Set For Retirement Are Online "For The Forseeable Future" 3 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 474
EPA Proposal Would Block State & Tribal Action To Oppose Pipelines And Data Centers That Threaten Water Quality 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 355
Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 14 Rhiannon12866 Jan 8 Tuesday 5 899
Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker Tuesday Tuesday 5 278
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom 1 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 3 400
Himalayan Snowpack Falling Quickly Compared To 1980-2020 Baseline; No DecemberRain/Snow In Nearly All Of Northern India 2 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 287
House Passes Bill To Claw Back $500 Million In Abandoned Mine Cleanup Money From VA, IL, KY, WV 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 406
No Wonder Trump Loves Venezuelan Oil - Its Decaying Infrastructure Leaks 13 Billion M3 Of Methane Each Year 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 350
"Embarassing" - Tour Down Under Cyclists Wondering Why Ever-Hotter Race Sponsored By Oil/Gas Company Santos 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 395
After Up To Two Feet Of Rain In Queensland, Multiple Communities May Be Cut Off For Weeks Or Months 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 373
Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler Tuesday Tuesday 3 279
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Jan 11 Jan 12 7 368
A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 12 Jan 12 7 455
Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 6 413
850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 439
Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Jan 12 Jan 12 9 544
Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Jan 12 Jan 12 4 236
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Jan 11 Jan 11 5 574
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Jan 10 Jan 10 2 525
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 5 388
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Jan 10 Jan 10 8 434
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 2 337
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 4 293
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 11 279
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Jan 9 Jan 9 12 493

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 9 317
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Jan 9 Jan 9 6 378
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Jan 8 Jan 8 7 355
Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Jan 8 Jan 8 5 438
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 10 622
Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Jan 8 Jan 8 5 413
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Jan 8 Jan 8 7 363
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Jan 7 Jan 7 4 352
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 1 Jan 7 7 577
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 7 26 798
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 6 324
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 7 Jan 7 7 367
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Jan 7 Jan 7 6 414
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Jan 6 Jan 6 60 1905
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Jan 6 Jan 6 8 444
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 6 Jan 6 4 235
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 23 851
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 6 298
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 7 366
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Jan 6 Jan 6 3 324
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