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Highest Use Of Fertilizers On Grasslands Cut Flowers Fivefold; Pollinators Dropped By Up To 50% 1 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 9 237
TX Now Requires Registration Of Oil Waste Pits, But No Need To Line Pits Or Notify Landowners, So Freedumb Survives 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 2 259
UK Environment Ministry Having To Fight To Ensure That $13.5 Million In Sewage Cleanup Funds 2B Used For That Purpose 0 hatrack 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 0 151
As Of 2024, BYD World's Largest EV Manufacturer By Output; Their Most Popular Model Costs $10,000 2 hatrack Sunday Yesterday 6 384
Killer CEOs: How Climate Change Became Big Oil's Biggest Crime - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 2 207
Seawater Electrolysis One of 10 Hydrogen Projects Funded to 'Accelerate Net Zero' 3 Caribbeans Sunday Sunday 1 327
ENOWA and HRS Launch Saudi Arabia's First Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Refueling Station 0 Caribbeans Sunday Sunday 0 244
Fire at the Vistra battery plant in Moss Landing prompts evacuation orders. 5 hunter Friday Sunday 9 441
LA Residents Returning To The Ruins Face Complex Threats: Lead, Carcinogens Now, Mudslides When The Rains Return 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 311
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 6 347
Hydrogen is transforming a tiny Utah coal town. Could its success hold lessons for similar communities? 6 Caribbeans Saturday Sunday 3 417
US Supreme Court Rejects Big Oil Attacks on Hawaii Climate Lawsuit 1 Judi Lynn Jan 13 Sunday 5 277
INTERPOL, Germany, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Unite Efforts to Tackle Environmental Crime 4 C0RI0LANUS Saturday Saturday 6 363
USGS releases first-ever map of potential for geologic hydrogen in U.S. 1 Caribbeans Saturday Saturday 1 347
Eco-nomics: A brief history of how the climate crisis unfolded 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Saturday Saturday 4 217
Dissolution Rates of Uranium Dioxide in Used Nuclear Fuel in an H2O2/Carbonate System Are Enhanced by Radiation. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 192
As Future Generations Will Need to Live on Our Trash: Recovery of Phosphorous and Fluorine from Phosphogypsum. 1 NNadir Saturday Saturday 5 277
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 9 225
3M Lied For 40 Years, Knowing That Firefighting Foams Contained PFAS; Company Said They Were Harmless, Biodegradable 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 341
Federal Reserve Leaves Global Central Bank Group Created To Study Climate Risks To Financial System 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 2 221
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 4 364
Greenwashing Lawsuit Against P&G; Charmin Labeled As "Sustainable" Despite Company Sourcing Pulp From Boreal Forests 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 234
At Least $30 Billion In Insured Losses From LA Fires; 2 Outcomes Are Certain: Higher Premiums And Cancelled Coverage 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 3 447

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Humpback Whale Sightings Spike In Waters Around UK; Population Growth Or Search For Declining Food In Warming Ocean 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 179
Texas The National Test Platform For "Compound Disasters" - As Category 1 Beryl Showed When Houston's Grid Failed 2 hatrack Friday Friday 7 246
Word Of The Week: "Panzootic" - As In Bird Flu's Capacity As A Species Jumper 2 hatrack Friday Friday 5 232
Yes, A Voluntary, Poorly Benchmarked And Riggable Carbon Market For Plugging Abandoned Oil Wells Will Turn The Tide!! 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 236
Trump nominee says Boeing needs 'tough love,' EVs should pay for road use 2 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Friday 2 323
NOAA withdraws speed rule proposal aimed at protecting endangered whale 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 6 266
Oil and gas companies investing in landfills that turn trash into clean fuel - NBC News 2 TexasTowelie Friday Friday 3 278
Do offshore wind farms harm whales? Experts weigh in as Trump labels them 'dangerous' 6 Jim__ Friday Friday 7 366
Deb Haaland on Biden's efforts to preserve public land and recognize Indigenous history - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 10 378
CA State-Backed Insurer Warned FAIR Was "One Major Event Away From Insolvency" - And, Well, Here We Are 2 hatrack Friday Friday 6 325
Tech Crunch: Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory 2 Dennis Donovan Friday Friday 3 219
Hino (Toyota) Fined $1.6 Billion For Years Of Fraudulent Emissions Data, Smuggling Illegal Engines 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 272
BP Eliminating 7,700 Jobs (5% Of Its Workforce) Because It Made Noises About Greener Energy Sources 3 hatrack Friday Friday 5 295
Suriname Hammered By Record Drought; Water Supply, Transportation & Public Health Shutting Down As Rivers Dry Up 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 207
What LA Residents Are Breathing Is Toxic: Mercury, PCBs, Lead From Burned Electronics, Cars & Buildings In The Mix 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 244
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 5 235
Rate Of Annual Atmospheric CO2 Increase In 2024 - 3.6 ppm - Was Twice That Needed For Putative 1.5C Goal 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 174
Agricultural trade is three times more harmful to biodiversity 1 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 2 192
Who does the EPA protect? 2 douglas9 Thursday Thursday 6 291
Mitsubishi Drops Plan For 77-Acre Chemical Plant In Lousiana's Cancer Alley Along The Mississippi River 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 350
Author Of "Fire "Weather" - "We Are Going To Have To Let Go Of A Lot Of The 20th Century" 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 13 485
Climate Trump's energy secretary nominee faces questions over climate posts and LA fires 0 mahatmakanejeeves Thursday Thursday 8 271
Actuarial Study Projects 4 Billion Deaths At 3C Increase; Global Leaders "Blinded" By Lowball Estimates of Economic Loss 4 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 436
Meet Your Incoming Energy Secretary - Smugly "Standing By" His Dismissal Of Climate Collapse As 'Hype" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 413
The Press Makes Sporadic Connections Between Extremes Like LA's Fires And Climate Breakdown - And It's Not Nearly Enough 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 248
'Warm water' from deep sea flowing towards one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 8 300
New York City lawsuit against Exxon, BP, Shell over climate change dismissed 3 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 7 351
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 6 186
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 1070
Republican drafting anti-offshore wind order with Trump 0 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 7 329

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright Testifies at Confirmation Hearing 0 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 2 234
SCOTUS Declines To Hear Cases On Energy Company Liability, UT Public Lands, Vineyard Wind, Air Pollution 3 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 329
Statistia: Annual Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions 1940-2024 (Handy Detailed Graphic) 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 255
Despite Advances In Breeding, Science Consensus Grows That "De-Extinction" Is Likely Impossible 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 371
Not That They Would Have Done Much, But World's Largest Banks Eager To Remove Themselves From Climate Commitments 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 2 253
Oh Goody!! Liz Truss And Nigel Farage Are Going To Be Part Of A New UK Climate Denial Group, Hosted By Heartland 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 3 253
Biden administration finalizes US crackdown on Chinese vehicles 2 Caribbeans Tuesday Tuesday 0 358
Glyphosate-Resistant Weed (Italian Rye Grass) Confirmed On UK Farm: First Such Confirmed Discovery 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 318
Could Keir Starmer's AI dream derail his own green energy promise? 0 muriel_volestrangler Tuesday Tuesday 1 205
Norway on track to be first to go all-electric 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 13 Tuesday 9 474
The Pliocene Returns - Oh Well!! Atmosperic CO2 Content Rose 11% 2014-2023; CH4, Nitrous Oxide Also At New Record Highs 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 336
Planes are dumping ocean water to fight the Los Angeles fires. Here's why using saltwater is typically a last resort 3 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 13 593
Canada's #1 And #3 Banks Expected To Abandon Net Zero Banking Alliance; Mealy-Mouthed Voluntary Process Just Too Much 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 326
Nature - Disappearance Of Sea Ice Surrounding Antarctica Is Powering Increased Frequency Of Southern Ocean Storms 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 241
In Face Of Firehose Of Lies & Insults, Newsom Invites Shitstain To Visit LA And See For Himself; No Response Yet 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 242
"Good Old Days" Return To MS In The Form Of Hookworm, Roundworm, Tapeworm; Small Survey Shows 38% Infestation Rate 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 10 474
LA Fires Pose High Smoke Risk; It's Not Just Massive Particulate Pollution, It's Also Toxins From Burned Cars, Buildings 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 266
Trump's pick to lead EPA, Lee Zeldin, was paid tens of thousands to write op-eds criticizing climate policies and ESG 2 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 6 248
The Author Is Australian, The Sentiment The Same: Rage Among The Young At What Is Happening Before Their Eyes To Earth 4 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 10 401
Climatologist Peter Kalmus On Democracy Now - On Why He Left, Why Nothing's Changing And Why The World's On Fire 2 hatrack Jan 13 Jan 13 14 503
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