Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 93 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Environment & Energy
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Environment & Energy

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
TX Faces $150 Billion+ Bill For Water Infrastructure Through 2075, So Sales Tax Will Fund $1 Billion/Year For 20 Years 5 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 24 4 473
Sen. Whitehouse Dives Into the Fossil Fuel-Funded RAGA Scheme: An "Industry Masked as Government" - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 24 Jun 24 4 416
Chinese scientists set new efficiency record for solar-to-hydrogen conversion 2 Caribbeans Jun 23 Jun 23 2 1630
404 Media: 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 10 OKIsItJustMe Jun 23 Jun 23 18 1081
Green Hydrogen Plans Evaporate; Projects Fold, PlugShare Deeply In Debt, AI Driving Demand For Cheapest Possible Energy 3 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 4 411
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 23 9 509
Northern Virginia data centers have topped 4,900 megawatts. What does that mean? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 23 Jun 23 10 519
US Skips Bonn Climate Conference, Since They Can Shit All Over Discussions During Brazil Summit In December 1 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 8 359
"I Feel Like I've Been Lied To" Says TX Chiropractor Who Got Violently Ill From Measles 10 hatrack Jun 22 Jun 23 12 1078
10s Of Millions Face Deadly Conditions In Rare June Heatwave; Indices In The Low Hundreds In Multiple Cities 2 hatrack Jun 22 Jun 22 10 501
India Launches First 5 Commercial Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses In Leh, Ladakh 0 Caribbeans Jun 21 Jun 21 0 268
Historic land deal halts mine planned next to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp 0 Pinback Jun 21 Jun 21 4 343
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 21 0 168
NPR: In 'Human Nature,' author Kate Marvel explores climate change through nine emotions 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 21 Jun 21 3 910
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe 0 douglas9 Jun 21 Jun 21 8 321
Good meme to share: 0 applegrove Jun 21 Jun 21 18 471
Danger On The Horizon... - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Jun 21 Jun 21 4 487
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe 4 OnlinePoker Jun 20 Jun 20 18 481
Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North? 0 Brenda Jun 20 Jun 20 9 411
Trapped Jet Stream Waves, Which Drive Summer Weather Extremes And Records, Have Tripled Since 1950s 6 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 20 5 1724
Don't Cede Hydrogen Energy Leadership to China 2 Caribbeans Jun 19 Jun 20 0 412
When it comes to "Renewables," China has its own scale 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 20 Jun 20 1 474
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 20 Jun 20 7 497
Realistic (?) roles for hydrogen in the future energy transition. 0 NNadir Jun 19 Jun 19 1 387
Across Much Of Canada, Fires Seem To Be Outpacing Forests' Ability To Regenerate 7 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 7 439
Arctic peatlands expanding as climate warms 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 19 Jun 19 6 316
Oil Majors And Billionaires Who Fund Climate Lies Also Donate To Anti-Trans Orgs - Creating Hate-Bait For Right Wing 3 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 3 408
Study: Human influence on climate detectable in the late 19th century 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 19 Jun 19 3 1385
Less Than 2 Years Of Planet's Carbon Budget Left To Meet 1.5C Target At Current GHG Output Rates 2 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 3 424
Hurricane Erick At Category 4 Intensity Nears Mexico Landfall With Life-Threatening Flooding, High Winds 2 muriel_volestrangler Jun 19 Jun 19 9 795

Environment & Energy Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
As Droughts Intensify, More CA Famland Fallowed; Unsurprisingly, Dust Content In Central Valley Air Rising 36% /Decade 2 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 5 400
Swedish Executive Gets 6 Year Prison Term For Dumping Hundreds Of 1,000s Of Tons Of Toxic Trash 3 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 3 529
In 2024 The World's 65 Biggest Banks Loaned $869 Billion To Fossil Fuel Companies, Up $162 Billion From 2023 0 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 2 358
Cleveland Cliffs Steel Plant Dumps Plan To Replace Coal-Powered Furnace With Hydrogen; More Coal. Please 1 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 3 411
Trump's Destruction Of Science - Particularly Climate Science - Is Massive, Deliberate And May Never Be Undone 1 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 12 478
At Least Four Dead, Others Still MIssing After Flash Flooding In Northern WV - Up To 4" Of Rain In 30 Minutes 0 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 4 389
2/3 Of Americans Will Experience A Week Of Extreme Heat & Humidity Starting Friday June 20th 1 hatrack Jun 19 Jun 19 9 464
How Do Cats Use Their Whiskers? Slow-Motion Cats Uncovered BBC Earth 5 Uncle Joe Jun 18 Jun 19 25 919
Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn 1 Eugene Jun 19 Jun 19 3 338
Canada could produce first LNG by this weekend, sources say 1 OnlinePoker Jun 18 Jun 19 2 411
Visionary Leadership! Senate GQP Wants To Stuff Big Bullshit Bill With Even More Goodies For Oil Industry 1 hatrack Jun 18 Jun 18 1 321
Future planetary warming this century will be worse than previously thought. 9 Tonk Jun 18 Jun 18 41 1463
Nature.com:Diversified hydrogen production methods can reduce C02 emissions and energy consumption across Chinese cities 1 Caribbeans Jun 17 Jun 17 0 349
EPA will revisit Biden-era ban on the last type of asbestos used in US 0 Eugene Jun 17 Jun 17 2 271
Trump secretly shut down the only agency whose sole purpose is investigating chemical industry explosions. 0 Tonk Jun 17 Jun 17 5 448
Australia Launches First Hydrogen Refueling Station for Trucks in Geelong, Powered by Green Hydrogen 2 Caribbeans Jun 16 Jun 17 1 393
Jane Goodall chimpanzee conservation project in Tanzania hit by USAID cuts 1 Eugene Jun 17 Jun 17 6 278
NASA Sensor On Space Station Detects Contamination Off California Coast 2 Judi Lynn Jun 16 Jun 16 16 672
Beyond Energy, There's Also This: One Large-Scale Data Center Can Use The Water Used By A City Of Up To 60,000 People 0 hatrack Jun 16 Jun 16 8 373
Emissions Test: Car vs. Truck vs. Leaf Blower (Edmunds) 15 usonian Jun 14 Jun 15 5 766
Toxic Algae Turns Australia's Coorong Estuary Into A "Slurry Of Dead Worms" - DeadlyTo At Least 200 Marine Species 0 hatrack Jun 15 Jun 15 4 411
This Alaska Native fishing village was trying to power their town. Then came Trump's funding cuts. 0 douglas9 Jun 15 Jun 15 7 553
Growth in global electricity generation using "Solar PV" outpacing growth in other technologies 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 Jun 14 6 1244
China's lead in Green Hydrogen 15 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 14 3 787
The National Weather Service issues Alaska's first ever heat advisory 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 14 Jun 14 3 367
The growth of renewables in the United States 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 13 Jun 14 5 376
The Substitute May Be Worse Than the Problematic Product. Change Doesn't Always Prove Positive. 2 NNadir Jun 14 Jun 14 6 561
An Interesting Commentary on Pharmaceuticals and Climate. 0 NNadir Jun 14 Jun 14 6 472
Shitstain Yanks US Out Of Plan For Salmon Recovery In PNW Because It's "Radical Environmentalism" Hurrdurr Hurrdurr 0 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 8 421
Global Ocean Conference Arouses Predictable Rhetorical Questions As To Humanity "Awakening" To Environmental Collapse 0 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 2 342

Environment & Energy Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
"Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference" Features Zeldin, Burgrum, Whining About How Oppressed Alaska Is 0 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 1 308
Alabama Mining Regulator Expecting Feds To Take Over Mine Regulations As Federal Funding Dries Up 0 hatrack Jun 14 Jun 14 2 319
500 Hydrogen-Powered Two-Wheelers Launched in Hubei, China Marking New Green Mobility Era 2 Caribbeans Jun 13 Jun 14 2 474
Don't Let China Dominate the Hydrogen Future 7 Caribbeans Jun 10 Jun 14 2 551
Trump EPA says emissions aren't harmful, rolling back pollution rules. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 14 Jun 14 2 336
Second Wave of Hydrogen Sanitation Vehicles Hit the Roads in Anhui Province, China 0 Caribbeans Jun 13 Jun 13 2 350
Tulane scientist resigns, citing 'gag order' on environmental justice research 0 Eugene Jun 13 Jun 13 9 369
Environment Trump breaks historic Columbia River deal between U.S. government, tribes, NW states 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 13 Jun 13 1 364
Ticking time bomb': Ocean acidity crosses vital threshold, study finds 2 angryxyouth Jun 13 Jun 13 15 395
Yes, This Should Work Well - EPA Ready To Hand Texas Power To Authorize "Carbon Capture" Projects 5 hatrack Jun 12 Jun 13 4 444
Some Homeowners Opted For Federal Assistance To Leave Flood Zones; Their Local Governments Didn't Approve 1 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 8 500
Oregon Wildfire Closes 20 Miles Of I-84 Between Hood River And The Dalles; 700 Homes Evacuated 1 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 4 454
One Of Few AI Outcomes We Can Be Reasonably Sure Of: A Projected Doubling Of Air Pollution In Texas 1 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 5 314
Yorkshire Just Had Its Driest Spring In 132 Years; Moorland Fires Spike As Crops Begin To Fail 1 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 3 391
Brazil Preps To Host Climate Summit By Auctioning Offshore Area Larger Than Scotland For Oil Drilling 0 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 2 301
Shocked, Shocked!! Corporate Climate And Sustainability Pledges & Policies Melting Away Like Snow In The Sahara 0 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 4 409
Energy Sector Finds Amazing Method To Make Methane "Clean" - Bribing Legislatures To Pass Laws That Say So 0 hatrack Jun 13 Jun 13 4 289
China announces national hydrogen pilot scheme across 11 priority areas 1 Caribbeans Jun 12 Jun 12 0 367
Reuters: Possible defects at French reactor lift European power prices 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 12 Jun 12 2 379
Since They Care So Much About Affordable Housing, Senate GQP Plan Would Require Sale Of 3.3 Million Acres Of BLM Land 4 hatrack Jun 12 Jun 12 7 492
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Environment & Energy
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2025 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.