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Federal Ag Bill Would Block State Laws Limiting Sale Of Factory-Farmed Meat, Or Rules Informing Consumers 0 hatrack Jul 5 Jul 5 8 430
Truckloads of Tesla Batteries Keep Getting Stolen Before They Even Leave the Factory 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 5 Jul 5 11 840
America's Most TOXIC Site Could Be Worse Than CHERNOBYL - PBS Terra 6 Rhiannon12866 Jul 3 Jul 5 9 812
19 Dead in New Jersey As Heat Wave Leaves Thousands Without Power 🔥 1 appalachiablue Jul 5 Jul 5 9 660
How climate change and rising seas endanger historic sites like Jamestown, Virginia - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 4 Jul 4 5 461
Latest report from Sea Shepherd on the 2026 Vaquita survey (the world's most endangered cetacean) 1 LT Barclay Jul 3 Jul 3 8 420
🇲🇫 France, Hundreds of People Scramble To Buy Air Conditioners in Stores Before Next Heatwave 7 appalachiablue Jul 3 Jul 3 3 566
Quantifying Carbon Leakage from Renewable Shortfalls in China's Power System under Future Scenarios 3 NNadir Jun 27 Jul 3 2 1241
Heat adds to strains on areas with data centers, raising the temperature on AI debates 0 Dulcinea Jul 3 Jul 3 6 443
🔥 Spain, France Face More Heat, Paris Supermarket Fights Over Air Conditioners, Elder Deaths 3 appalachiablue Jul 2 Jul 2 8 460
Livestock's Toll On The Environment Is Rising, New Report Reveals 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2 Jul 2 4 387
England has just had its hottest June on record, Met Office data shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2 Jul 2 6 332
Spain and France face more heat after scorching June caused 2,000 deaths 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2 Jul 2 3 309
74 Gas Power Plants Proposed for U.S. Data Centers Could Release as Much Climate Pollution as Australia 2 OKIsItJustMe Jul 1 Jul 2 6 409
'We are screwed': People near data centers dread heat wave pollution 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2 Jul 2 8 463
Air Products Books $2.2 Billion Loss, Cancels $4.5 Billion Combo Hydrogen And "Carbon Capture" Project In Louisiana 1 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 4 458
FERC Ruling Could Strengthen Maryland's Claim Against Data Centers Jacking Up Power Costs, But Outcome Uncertain 1 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 4 366
Celebrate The 4th & World Cup In Philadelphia, With Heat Indices Expected At Or Near 110F Through This Coming Weekend 1 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 4 377
Major Banks Haven't Just Abandoned "Net-Zero" Pledges, They're Dumping Money Into O&G, Plastics And Fertilizers 0 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 5 529
The Wittiwest Pwesident's Great Big Fireworks Boom-Boom Is Going To Produce Massive, Hazardous Levels Of Air Pollution 0 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 11 435
French government to face vote of no confidence over heat wave 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 1 Jul 1 4 474
Copernicus - Non-Polar Global Ocean SurfaceTemperatures At All-Time High In June, Breaking 2023, 2024 Record Highs 1 hatrack Jul 1 Jul 1 4 359
Hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 1 Jul 1 8 369
A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 1 Jul 1 6 335
90% Of UK North Sea Oil Is Already Gone, But Reform UK Lying That Developing Rosebank Will Lower Fuel Prices 1 hatrack Jul 1 Jul 1 4 425
Dangerous combination: Over 175 million facing record heat into the weekend 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 1 Jul 1 6 418
Spain attributes over 1,000 excess deaths to heat in second-hottest June ever 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 1 Jul 1 5 423
Dangerous Chemical Accidents Rose 51% In US 2021-25; Number Of Deaths Rose From 60 To 89 In Same Period 0 hatrack Jul 1 Jul 1 7 341
3rd Straight All-Time Daily High Temperature Record In Germany As Heatwave Moves To Threaten Eastern Europe, Balkans 1 hatrack Jun 30 Jul 1 6 451
Chinese breakthrough could make desalinated seawater cheaper than bottled water 2 usonian Jul 1 Jul 1 20 819

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A Climate Conversation: Whitehouse and Khanna Reveal 10 Reasons Democrats Need to Talk About Climate 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 1 Jul 1 5 371
In Past 10 Years, # Of Floods In West Virginia Has More Than Doubled Over The 2006 - 2015 Decade 1 hatrack Jun 30 Jun 30 5 389
Freedumb!! Shitstain Will Cut Most Comment On Drilling On Public Lands, Make Taxpayers Pay For Cleanup 0 hatrack Jun 30 Jun 30 7 412
2026 Study on whether EV's are better for the environment than ICE vehicles (not one from 2019) 17 Finishline42 Jun 25 Jun 30 5 1634
What is the Indus Water Treaty and why are India and Pakistan willing to 'go to war' over it? 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 30 Jun 30 1 354
Shell expects 65% rise in global LNG demand by 2050 3 littlemissmartypants Jun 30 Jun 30 2 474
UCLA team uses 3D printing to develop zinc-ion hybrid battery with 7 times more energy 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 30 Jun 30 11 480
Earthrise Energy's Gibson City Solar Project Begins Commercial Operation 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 30 Jun 30 2 413
New Prismatic Line Unlocks Powerful Possibilities for U.S. Battery Research 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 30 Jun 30 7 538
World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending resources to climate change projects 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 30 6 415
Crashing insect populations have resulted in smaller tree swallows that reproduce less 4 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 30 8 695
Efficient Production of Solar Hydrogen Through Direct Coupling of Concentrating Solar Cells and Electrolyzer 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 29 5 439
Warming climate, pollution and unplanned growth push Kashmir's lakes toward disappearance 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 29 3 405
US leads global CO2 emissions increase in 2025, report finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 29 2 414
India makes hydrogen from nuclear heat, not electricity. Why scientists are thrilled 1 Caribbeans Jun 29 Jun 29 4 530
'Literally growing the future': volunteers help save Scottish rainforest by collecting 11m seeds 1 cbabe Jun 29 Jun 29 15 458
Decline in plankton across North East Atlantic sends stark warning for ocean health 2 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 29 20 683
☀️ Germany Records Hottest Day Ever As Europe Heatwave Worsens 105.8 F 12 appalachiablue Jun 27 Jun 29 12 1092
Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 29 Jun 29 5 386
Europe Extreme Heat 'We Were Warned' WHO Chief - 1300 Dead from Climate - Driven Heatwave 🔥 4 appalachiablue Jun 28 Jun 28 11 590
Energy Production and Use Graphics: Sankey Diagrams of the World, Germany, and France. 13 NNadir Jun 25 Jun 28 1 1123
⭐ Surviving Europe Heatwaves, Global Stress, Bodies, Cities, Health Systems; Elec Blackouts - Jeff Goodell, Climate Auth 0 appalachiablue Jun 28 Jun 28 6 529
Environmental defenders remain among world's most targeted activists 0 Brenda Jun 28 Jun 28 5 378
S. Australian Marine Site Sees 1,000s (Sometimes100X More) Of Giant Cuttlefish Most Years; In 2026, "A Few Dozen" 1 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 5 524
Japan has built a yacht which never needs to stop for refueling as it makes its own fuel from seawater while sailing 3 Caribbeans Jun 27 Jun 27 19 867
Japanese Hydrogen Yacht: WTF??? 0 hunter Jun 27 Jun 27 3 602
How Phones Alerted Millions Before Quakes Shook Venezuela 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 27 Jun 27 9 895
New Series: Where the Wild Ones Were... 1 2naSalit Jun 26 Jun 26 11 506
☀️ Coping, Heatwave in Paris, Sleeping w Wet Towels; BBC EU, Paris Limit Alcohol Sales, Hospitals; UK 1 appalachiablue Jun 26 Jun 26 9 564
Maybe not in our country, but certainly in a lot of the world - EV's are starting make serious inroads 3 Finishline42 Jun 25 Jun 26 5 595

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Interim FWS Asst. Director Has Zero Public Lands Experience, But He Loves Deregulation, Money And Jesus 2 hatrack Jun 26 Jun 26 2 591
Report - Carbon Capture Is Never, Ever Going To Work At Scale, And Has Never Been More Than Greenwashing 2 hatrack Jun 26 Jun 26 10 678
Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump 4 Dulcinea Jun 26 Jun 26 51 1421
97F In Hampshire As UK Lives Hottest June Day On Record; In France, New National Temp Record Lasted Exactly One Day 3 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 26 6 530
World Bank Report - Gas Flaring Up For 3rd Straight Year; More Flared Last Year Than All African Nations Used For Power 0 hatrack Jun 26 Jun 26 5 502
The Simple Truth: Climate Change Threatens Home Values and the Mortgage Market - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 25 Jun 25 8 418
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Finishline42 Jun 25 Jun 25 0 159
What happens when environmental change outpaces life's ability to adapt? 4 OKIsItJustMe Jun 25 Jun 25 14 936
The World Inventory of Used Nuclear Fuel as of 2025 Stood at 447,758 Metric Tons. 2 NNadir Jun 25 Jun 25 0 576
As Northern Hemisphere temperatures soar, a new app shows players' heat risk for sport 4 OKIsItJustMe Jun 25 Jun 25 3 441
Dangerous fire weather to hit the West with combination of lightning and wind 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 25 4 438
Corpus Christi & TX Officials Have Ignored Global Warming And Worst-Case Drought Scenarios For 30 Years And Counting 3 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 10 657
Two heat domes will combine to form big US heatwave next week 1 nitpicked Jun 25 Jun 25 10 807
Europe swelters under deadly 'Omega' heatwave, more records broken 7 usonian Jun 24 Jun 25 16 852
US Energy Secy At UK Conference Featuring Nigel Farage; Says Cold Deadlier Than Heat As All-Time Record Fall Across EU 0 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 3 504
AI is an energy and water hog, here's what you can do to counter that 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 25 Jun 25 3 506
Detection of Offshore Wind Turbine Chemical Spallation by Non-Targeted Analysis (Mass Spec). 0 NNadir Jun 25 Jun 25 3 618
Fired NOAA Climate & Weather Staff Revive Former Climate.gov Under A New Name; Beginning To Post New Data 17 hatrack Jun 24 Jun 25 114 4924
Walmart's first nuclear deal shows demand beyond AI data centers 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 24 Jun 24 3 563
CATL Debuts World's First Field-Validated Sodium-Ion BESS, Bringing Sodium Storage to Commercial Reality 1 OKIsItJustMe Jun 24 Jun 24 9 476
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