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Brazil to blast channel in Amazon river to increase shipping - Reuters 0 TexasTowelie 6 min ago 6 min ago 0 39
Trump Admin threatens Europeans over green shipping rules: 1 applegrove 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 5 205
The American Southwest, a film by Ben Masters 4 Beringia Yesterday 7 hrs ago 7 279
Alabama Power Customers Paid More Than Any Customers In US In 2024; For Very Poor, 1/4 Of Income For Electricity 2 hatrack 9 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 5 246
The NPS Had An Employee Whose Job it Was To Seal Leaky Oil Wells In National Parks - Now He's Been Fired 1 hatrack 10 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 12 253
Ecuador Plans to Host a US Military Base in the Galapagos Islands to Fight Drug Trafficking 7 douglas9 11 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 5 255
For 20 Years, ExxonMobil Paid Climate Liars To Weaken Support For Climate Action Across Latin America 0 hatrack 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 4 196
Black vultures attack and kill cattle. Climate change is one reason they're spreading north 2 NickB79 Yesterday Yesterday 4 260
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 0 NickB79 Yesterday Yesterday 6 230
Bolivia's Cerro Rico Beginning To Collapse; After Centuries Of Silver Mining, It's Riddled With Tunnels 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 309
Senate declines to halt plan to kill off half-million barred owls by Fish and Wildlife Service 2 NickB79 Yesterday Yesterday 10 404
A note on the scale of CO2 emissions connected with steel manufacture. 0 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 3 192
At Least 27 Rare Earth Mines Operating In Laos; Possible Threat To Multiple River Basins, But Hard Data Lacking 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 4 201
Per Shitstain Inc., Alaska Is "Open For Business" But Nobody's Buying; State Agency Sole New Oil Leaseholder 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 11 294
4 Months After Shitstain Cut Listeria Monitoring, At Least 6 Die, 25+ Hospitalized (From Precooked Pasta) 3 hatrack Friday Saturday 15 309
CSX Derailment Sends 4,000 Gallons Of Diesel & 4,000 Tons Of Coal Into Remote Chickahominy River Wetlands 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 11 342
What Does Alberta's Oil Wealth Pay For? Not Education - Alberta Is Dead Last In Per-Pupil Spending Among Provinces 4 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 280
Italian Chemical Plant Poisoned Water W. PFAS; After Bankruptcy, It Closed - And Now Operates In India 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 269
Emergency DOE Order To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open Has Cost $80 Million Since May - Customers Across MISO Will Pay 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 256
Pritzker set to sign sweeping battery legislation for renewable 2 applegrove Friday Saturday 3 212
Fucking Brazil Prepares To Unveil Another Fucking Carbon Offset Proposal At Fucking Climate Summit 1 hatrack Thursday Friday 6 224
Be like Andrew: 1 applegrove Friday Friday 12 237
Bureau Of Meteorology: October 2025 Will Be Hottest October Ever For Queensland, Northern Territory 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 119
Since 20 January 2025, Average Electricity Prices In The United States Have Increased 11% 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 179
No Administration Delegation Will Attend CRAP-30; Former State Dept: "Most Countries Would Prefer There Be No US" 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 197
Govt Shut Down, But BLM Busy Issuing Drilling Permits, While Some EPA Staff Work To Cut Mercury Rules 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 141
FWS Proposes Endangered Species Status For Rare Orchid, Despite April Order Rescinding Almost All ESA Protections 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 155
UN Secretary General: "Let's Recognize Our Failure" - 1.5C Climate Target Negotiated In Paris Is Dead 3 hatrack Tuesday Friday 12 299

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The fall of the CBS News climate team 1 douglas9 Friday Friday 10 319
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 Friday Friday 12 282
Trump Cuts Mean USFS Increasingly Unable To Perform Fuels Reduction - i.e. Unable To Cut Risks Of Massive Fires 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 361
Shitstain Admin Pushes 10 Million More Tons Of Toxic Releases Across Gulf States From Plastics, Pesticides, Oil Refining 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 220
All 7 Operational US LNG Terminals Violated Clean Air Act; Compliance Even For 1 Quarter Unusual At Multiple Sites 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 152
From The "No Shit!?!" Files - AI/Crypto/Datacenter Buildout Making Already Elusive Emissions & Climate Goals Impossible 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 205
Toxic Oil & Gas Wastewater Literally Pouring Out Of Ground; OK State Regulators Failed To Do Anything About It 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 179
Inside Edition & CBS News Investigation Finds Spider Monkeys For Sale 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 2 189
Melt ponds in permafrost develop their new microbiomes. It is not clear how 0 applegrove Thursday Thursday 9 237
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated. Trump Halted Efforts to Fix It. 1 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 8 235
EV Plants, Solar Farms, Battery Factories - Abandoned Energy Projects Cost 20,000 Jobs, +/- 15,000 In Trump States 1 hatrack Wednesday Thursday 5 282
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 Wednesday Wednesday 5 287
Time to Wake Up 302: Bought and Paid For - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 8 335
27 Beach Houses Have Collapsed On NC Outer Banks Since 2020; 15 In Last Month 5 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 13 414
Electricity Prices and Percentage of Energy Provided by Nuclear Energy in US States. 0 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 9 348
NOAA Pilots & Scientists Flew Into Melissa's 185 MPH Winds w/o Pay - 2 Flights Had To Abort 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 14 409
Corpus Christi - One Of Largest GOM Oil Refining Hubs - Faces Level 1 Water Emergency By Late 2026 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 307
US Billionaires Emit A Rhino's Weight Of Carbon Every Day; A Somali Citizen, That Of A Small Tomato 4 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 293
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 Wednesday Wednesday 6 218
Trump SCHEME BACKFIRES as DEADLY SCENARIO Surfaces - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 4 530
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 Tuesday Tuesday 7 169
The Biggest Long-Term Climate Threat To Municipal Finances Isn't Hurricanes Or Floods - It's Drought 2 hatrack Monday Tuesday 2 206
ExxonMobil Sues California, Claiming That Disclosure Of GHG Output Hurts Its First Amendment Rights 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 308
1 Year After Hundreds Died Before Flood Warnings Went Out, 50,000 March In Valencia To Demand Regional President Resign 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 274
Christopher Ketcham: Eat, Pray, Pollute 0 jfz9580m Tuesday Tuesday 1 375
Category 5 Hurricane Melissa Heads For Jamaica with catastrophic and life-threatening flooding - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 2 Rhiannon12866 Monday Monday 7 246
As Powell's Long-Term Drought Grinds On, Beavers Making Strong Comeback In Side Canyons, Rebuilding Habitat & Ecosystems 1 hatrack Monday Monday 8 340
Tar Sands "Carbon Capture" Boosters Strangely Absent At Trade Show; Also Absent - Any New Project Announcements 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 266
Just In Time For CRAP-30: Your Complete Guide To Industrial Agriculture's Greenwashing Phrases 0 hatrack Monday Monday 4 327
Shitstain, FF Majors & GOP AGs Pushing Hard To Destroy Ability of State & Local Govs To Sue Over Climate Damages 0 hatrack Monday Monday 5 293

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Ohnoanyway - Automakers, Utilities, FF Companies "Concerned" By Pending Erasure Of EPA Core Climate Rule 0 hatrack Monday Monday 4 273
Russia Detains 70-Year-Old Ukrainian Scientist W. "Treason" Accusations: His Crime - Opposing More Krill Fishing 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 290
Melissa Edging Towards Category 5; Likely 2B Worst Hurricane Ever To Hit Jamaica w. 1 Meter Or More Of Rain Possible 0 hatrack Monday Monday 9 288
AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants 5 question everything Oct 24 Oct 26 7 378
Trump claims ​'wind mills' kill whales but quietly torpedoes the science 3 douglas9 Oct 24 Oct 25 11 415
What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them "shocked" -- and devastated 9 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 25 Oct 25 58 1986
Central Maine Power Wants To Raise Rates By $400+ Avg/Year; Also Wants 9.8% Guaranteed Profit For Its Shareholders 2 hatrack Oct 23 Oct 25 4 348
A Paper For Our Times: Toxic Ignorance Cycles 0 NNadir Oct 25 Oct 25 4 343
How the search for an extinct bird from Iceland led researchers to Cincinnati - WCPO 9 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 24 Oct 24 4 276
Steve Bannon & Rebekah Mercer Funded Report On Terror Groups Like League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, Sunrise 3 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 11 480
+/- $1 Billion In Tax Breaks In 10 Years Wasn't Enough For TX LNG Company; Local Official Suggested They Pay More, Fired 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 3 284
Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling 1 Dulcinea Oct 24 Oct 24 5 282
Nature: Despite Greenwashing, FF Companies Own 1.42% of Renewable Capacity, Producing 0.1% Of Their Energy Output 1 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 2 272
2 Years Since Iowa's Water Quality Monitoring System Got State Support; Polk County Commits $200K To Keep Network Alive 0 hatrack Oct 24 Oct 24 1 221
World's first reactor converts ocean CO₂ into biodegradable bioplastic feedstock 10 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 24 11 452
Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 23 Oct 23 12 278
Catastrophic loss of Florida's staghorn and elkhorn corals highlights accelerating climate pressures for reefs worldwide 2 sue4e3 Oct 23 Oct 23 6 249
Shocking! Study Shows Tea Party Was Decades In The Making, A Creature Of The Tobacco Industry & The Koch Brothers 20 hatrack Oct 23 Oct 23 68 2371
Planet's Biggest Meat & Dairy Companies Produce More Methane Than EU Plus UK: Tonnage Equals Saudi GHG Output 1 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 23 5 256
Not One Major Bank Commits To Stop Funding Oil/Gas/Coal; Their Only Recent Changes Cut "Targets" 0 hatrack Oct 22 Oct 22 3 198
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