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Inside the Fossil Fuel Industry's Climate-Denial Social Media Echo Chamber 4 Brenda 1 hr ago 1 hr ago 1 150
Microwaves Deliver Clean Hydrogen in Minutes 1 Caribbeans 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 3 278
Killer CEOs: How Climate Change Became Big Oil's Biggest Crime - Thom Hartmann 1 Rhiannon12866 Monday 3 hrs ago 2 226
A Second Amazon Discovered: The Underwater Treasure Spanning Six Countries 1 Judi Lynn 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 15 391
Oregon to Host Nation's Largest Solar-Plus-Storage Installation 1 Think. Again. 10 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 2 225
China Installed a Record Capacity of Solar and Wind in 2024 - in numbers 17 Think. Again. Yesterday 9 hrs ago 2 264
Revealed: US climate denial group working with European far-right parties (from The Guardian) 1 Lulu KC 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 8 222
AI Vital To Our Future, For Without It, There Will Be No Chatbots Doing Automatic Greenwashing For Oil & Gas Companies 1 hatrack 12 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 4 170
Projected Global Atmospheric CO2 Levels For 2025 At Mauna Loa Observatory: Between 426 and 427.2 ppm 1 hatrack 12 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 5 172
During LA Fires, Lead In Smoke Reached 100X Background Levels; 2018 CA Fires May Have Caused 12,000 Premature Deaths 1 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 4 219
Congressional GQP Clicks Heels For Shitstain's Destruction Of Climate Policy, Energy "Plans" 1 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 3 189
"Catastrophic" Bleaching At Southern GBR Site; Of 461 Coral Colonies, 92 Intact, 113 Bleached, 193 Dead By Survey's End 1 hatrack 20 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 9 245
The significance of Trump withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement - CBS News 0 TexasTowelie 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 2 259
Pivoting to a Strategy based in Climate Adaptation: The Path Forward from Trump-world 10 Think. Again. Yesterday 18 hrs ago 2 270
30 Million Hectares Of Brazil's Forest Burned In 2024 - Equal In Area To Italy And Up 79% From 2023 0 hatrack 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 1 185
Something I thought should happen, hoped to happen, actually happened in 2024, some good news. 8 NNadir Sunday Yesterday 11 797
"If You're Not Doing Anything, Why Should We"? Utility Appeals To Eco-Ratepayers One More Offloading Of Responsibility 11 hatrack Sunday Yesterday 5 481
One Third Of Arctic Tundra Now Emitting CO2, Instead Of Containing It In Frozen Soils 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 261
Private UK Water Company Threatens To Raise Executive Pay If Gov Limits Bonuses After Decades of Pollution 3 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 1 229
Equinor Forced To Abandon Claim Of Storing 1 Million Tons Of CO2/Year Offshore; Actual Total About 10% Of That 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 1 230
"Sustainability-Linked Loans" - No Disclosure, No Teeth And No Commitment To Spend On Environmental Improvements 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 2 228
"Fuck Biden" Banners Adorn LA Town Where IRA Funding To Provide Hurricane Repairs Is Now In Limbo 11 hatrack Monday Monday 13 996
UK Nuclear Plant Sizewell C cost 'has doubled since 2020 and could near 40bn' 1 Caribbeans Monday Monday 2 233
Biden Signs Law Requiring Army Corps To Study Ending Generation At Willamette River Dams To Protect Salmon 2 hatrack Monday Monday 4 332
Highest Use Of Fertilizers On Grasslands Cut Flowers Fivefold; Pollinators Dropped By Up To 50% 1 hatrack Monday Monday 9 253
TX Now Requires Registration Of Oil Waste Pits, But No Need To Line Pits Or Notify Landowners, So Freedumb Survives 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 273
UK Environment Ministry Having To Fight To Ensure That $13.5 Million In Sewage Cleanup Funds 2B Used For That Purpose 0 hatrack Monday Monday 0 159
As Of 2024, BYD World's Largest EV Manufacturer By Output; Their Most Popular Model Costs $10,000 2 hatrack Sunday Monday 6 399

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero' 3 Caribbeans Sunday Sunday 1 341
ENOWA and HRS Launch Saudi Arabia's First Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Refueling Station 0 Caribbeans Sunday Sunday 0 264
Fire at the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing prompts evacuation orders. 5 hunter Friday Sunday 9 459
LA Residents Returning To The Ruins Face Complex Threats: Lead, Carcinogens Now, Mudslides When The Rains Return 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 323
Shitstain Sold Himself To Oil Majors 4/24. Top 15 Oil Billionaires' Wealth Up 15%, To $308 Billion Since That Meeting 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 381
Hydrogen is transforming a tiny Utah coal town. Could its success hold lessons for similar communities? 6 Caribbeans Saturday Sunday 3 441
US Supreme Court Rejects Big Oil Attacks on Hawaii Climate Lawsuit 1 Judi Lynn Jan 13 Sunday 5 285
INTERPOL, Germany, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Unite Efforts to Tackle Environmental Crime 4 C0RI0LANUS Saturday Saturday 6 376
USGS releases first-ever map of potential for geologic hydrogen in U.S. 1 Caribbeans Saturday Saturday 1 381
Eco-nomics: A brief history of how the climate crisis unfolded 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Saturday 4 225
Dissolution Rates of Uranium Dioxide in Used Nuclear Fuel in an H2O2/Carbonate System Are Enhanced by Radiation. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 200
As Future Generations Will Need to Live on Our Trash: Recovery of Phosphorous and Fluorine from Phosphogypsum. 1 NNadir Saturday Saturday 5 286
2024 CO2 Jump At Mauna Loa Was 3.58 ppm - That's Us Putting 7.6 Billion Tons More CO2 Into The Atmosphere In One Year 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 236
3M Lied For 40 Years, Knowing That Firefighting Foams Contained PFAS; Company Said They Were Harmless, Biodegradable 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 352
Federal Reserve Leaves Global Central Bank Group Created To Study Climate Risks To Financial System 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 2 227
LA Fire Chief Warned In 2023 Of Lack Of Wildland Fire Defense; Had To Make Do W. Teenage Volunteers 2 Days Each Week 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 385
Greenwashing Lawsuit Against P&G; Charmin Labeled As "Sustainable" Despite Company Sourcing Pulp From Boreal Forests 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 235
At Least $30 Billion In Insured Losses From LA Fires; 2 Outcomes Are Certain: Higher Premiums And Cancelled Coverage 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 3 452
Humpback Whale Sightings Spike In Waters Around UK; Population Growth Or Search For Declining Food In Warming Ocean 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 181
Texas The National Test Platform For "Compound Disasters" - As Category 1 Beryl Showed When Houston's Grid Failed 2 hatrack Friday Friday 7 252
Word Of The Week: "Panzootic" - As In Bird Flu's Capacity As A Species Jumper 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 236
Yes, A Voluntary, Poorly Benchmarked And Riggable Carbon Market For Plugging Abandoned Oil Wells Will Turn The Tide!! 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 239
Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use 2 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Friday 2 329
NOAA withdraws speed rule proposal aimed at protecting endangered whale 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 6 270
Oil and gas companies investing in landfills that turn trash into clean fuel - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Friday Friday 3 283
Do offshore wind farms harm whales? Experts weigh in as Trump labels them 'dangerous' 6 Jim__ Friday Friday 7 373
Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 10 388
CA State-Backed Insurer Warned FAIR Was "One Major Event Away From Insolvency" - And, Well, Here We Are 2 hatrack Friday Friday 6 334
Tech Crunch: Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory 2 Dennis Donovan Friday Friday 3 222
Hino (Toyota) Fined $1.6 Billion For Years Of Fraudulent Emissions Data, Smuggling Illegal Engines 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 279

Environment & Energy Continued...

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BP Eliminating 7,700 Jobs (5% Of Its Workforce) Because It Made Noises About Greener Energy Sources 3 hatrack Friday Friday 5 298
Suriname Hammered By Record Drought; Water Supply, Transportation & Public Health Shutting Down As Rivers Dry Up 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 216
What LA Residents Are Breathing Is Toxic: Mercury, PCBs, Lead From Burned Electronics, Cars & Buildings In The Mix 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 248
Expect Nothing And Worse From Shitstain; It's A Four-Year Big Oil Banquet, And Climate Collapse Doesn't Even Exist 1 hatrack Friday Friday 5 238
Rate Of Annual Atmospheric CO2 Increase In 2024 - 3.6 ppm - Was Twice That Needed For Putative 1.5C Goal 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 177
Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity 1 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 2 197
Who does the EPA protect? 2 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 6 301
Mitsubishi Drops Plan For 77-Acre Chemical Plant In Lousiana's Cancer Alley Along The Mississippi River 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 356
Author Of "Fire "Weather" - "We Are Going To Have To Let Go Of A Lot Of The 20th Century" 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 13 500
Climate Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 8 279
Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss 4 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 442
Meet Your Incoming Energy Secretary - Smugly "Standing By" His Dismissal Of Climate Collapse As 'Hype" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 421
The Press Makes Sporadic Connections Between Extremes Like LA's Fires And Climate Breakdown - And It's Not Nearly Enough 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 253
'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 8 303
New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed 3 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 7 359
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 6 189
I'm A Climate Scientist - My House In LA Burned Down - I Feel Safe Saying We Are Not Thriving On Our Changing Planet 7 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 30 1079
Republican drafting anti-offshore wind order with Trump 0 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 7 334
Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright Testifies at Confirmation Hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 2 238
SCOTUS Declines To Hear Cases On Energy Company Liability, UT Public Lands, Vineyard Wind, Air Pollution 3 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 333
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