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You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 2 301
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Yesterday 12 hrs ago 0 278
A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir 23 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 3 283
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir 23 hrs ago 23 hrs ago 0 92
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Friday Yesterday 6 266
Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 2 160
Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 1 293
All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 4 208
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Friday Friday 13 314
As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 161
Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors" 1 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 9 287
Study: 61% Of Global Bird Species In Global Survey Declining As IUCN Convenes 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 169
8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews 0 hatrack Friday Friday 7 263
TOTAL Havoc BREAKS LOOSE as Trump DESTROYS WEATHER FORECASTS - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 6 359
Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Thursday Friday 6 284
Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 8 224
UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 175
"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 4 Thursday 11 301
Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 258
20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 10 292
Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 3 245
Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Wednesday Thursday 5 176
Trump Just Gutted The Wildest Public Land In America 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 21 999
An inside look at Idaho's $3M fight against invasive quagga mussels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 2 188
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows 1 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 6 198
Biggest Federal Coal Lease Sale In 10 Years Brings One Bid - For 1/10th Cent Per Ton; Last Lease Sale Brought $1.10 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 257
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 220
UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 192

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 260
Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 3 165
That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 10 224
Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 821
Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 12 271
"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 373
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 6 254
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 9 268
EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 227
Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 309
Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Monday Monday 10 422
Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Monday Monday 15 451
Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Monday Monday 8 238
5 SE Asian Nations Collectively Lost Forest Area The Size Of Lebanon In 2024; 30% Of Losses In Protected Areas 0 hatrack Monday Monday 3 177
Cracking The Future: How Pistachios Can Power Morocco's Green Growth - OpEd 3 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 4 258
OhNoAnyway - 80% Of Ohio's Only National Forest Now Classified As Eligible For Logging 1 hatrack Monday Monday 7 332
So Cute!! "Moderate" Republicans Are "Concerned" W. Shitstain's Farcical And Toxic Coal Policies 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 289
Scientists Find 1st Evidence Of Invasive Barnacles In Arctic; Polar Water Had Been Too Cold For Them To Live There 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 243
42 Former Fossil Fuel Operatives Among Appointees/Nominees For Federal Energy And Environmental Positions 0 hatrack Monday Monday 2 218
Philippines to Launch First Coral Larvae Cryobank to Boost Reef Restoration 0 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 1 224
'All the trees are dead': An ancient California forest has been wiped out 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 11 488
OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 0 262
Explosive Growth In Valley Fever In CA, AZ In 2024; Now Shitstain's Medical Cuts Damaging Efforts To Respond 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 364
450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years 5 hatrack Sunday Sunday 1 284
Pumped Hydro Plant In NSW Was To Cost $2 Billion In 2017; 65% Complete, It's Pushing $13 Billion 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 0 245
Some National Parks Closed, Some Operating w. Skeleton Staffing, Some Left The Gates Open - No One Knows What To Do 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 334
Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for the first time: 1 applegrove Oct 4 Oct 4 10 387
Bans on this landscaping tool continue to spread across the US. See where. 12 Jilly_in_VA Oct 4 Oct 4 37 2976
Something is wrong with Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River 21 NickB79 Oct 4 Oct 4 51 2124
The Long Heat - New Book Shows Warming "Solutions" As Unwillingness To Challenge The Death-Grip Of Money 1 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 388

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Study: Marine Shell Data Tracks Changes In Ocean Currents; Large Changes In Conveyer Possible Under Today's Conditions 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 8 294
After "Unfortunate" Fatal Explosion In AL Home, State Abandons Monitoring For Methane Leaks From Coal Mining 2 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 11 408
W. At Least A Dozen Norovirus Outbreaks Under Way, CDC Lays Off Cruise Ship Health Inspectors, Including Epidemiologist 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 16 414
Environmental Doublespeak Is Now So Common That One Doesn't Even Notice. 1 NNadir Oct 4 Oct 4 2 328
OHNOANYWAY: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Shutting Down - But They're Generously Bequeathing Us Their "Guidance" 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 6 331
After Decades Of Legendarily Awful Air Pollution, Santiago May Finally Be Turning The Corner 0 hatrack Oct 4 Oct 4 5 250
Hydrogen/Battery Energy Storage Site Begins Operations in California 0 Caribbeans Oct 4 Oct 4 0 246
Tourism is helping Uganda's endangered mountain gorillas make a comeback 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 3 Oct 3 5 363
'This is unprecedented:' Ecology restricts surface water use in the Yakima River Basin 0 cbabe Oct 3 Oct 3 6 390
Global Warming Comes Knocking: "The Insurance Crisis In The US Is The Canary In The Coal Mine, And The Canary Is Dead" 5 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 17 702
Of 200 Biggest Global Fires Since1980 - In Terms Of GDP Losses - 43% Took Place In The Last 10 Years 1 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 3 303
WY, MT & 12 Other Trump States' Attorneys General Accuse Tech Firms Of Greenwashing - As A Way To Destroy Climate Goals 2 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 4 512
From rooftops to honey jars, Athens is abuzz with urban beekeeping 0 Jilly_in_VA Oct 3 Oct 3 4 463
Shitstain's DOE Gleefuly Cancels 226 Alt-Energy Programs W. $7.6 Billion In Funding - Including "Carbon Capture" And H 2 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 5 453
Duke Energy Unveils "We Don't Give A Fuck" Energy Plan; Will Keep Burning Coal For 2-4 More Years, Because AI 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 9 461
Apparently, Senior Tories Are "Concerned" About Badenoch Dumping Climate Plan. That's Nice . . . 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 2 324
Berlin's Reintroduction Of Goshawks In City Parks A Model For UK; Mesopredator Control To Benefit Songbirds 0 hatrack Oct 3 Oct 3 6 374
Former NOAA Employees Launch Climate.us To Provide Data Scrubbed By Trump; AGU, AMS Reboot National Climate Assessment 7 hatrack Oct 2 Oct 2 52 1109
National Flood Insurance Program Now $22.5 Billion In Debt; Current Authorization Ended 9/30/2025 3 hatrack Oct 2 Oct 2 9 382
As Hurricanes Stir Up Coastal Waters, North Carolina Homes Collapse Into the Sea 6 Brenda Oct 1 Oct 2 3 421
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