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JD Vance's Hometown Gets To Keep On Breathing Exhaust From Coal-Powered Blast Furnace, Thanks To His Boss 2 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 5 328

Watering Bans Expand To Include 1 In 7 Residents Of England; Rainfall Apr-Jun Down 37% From Historical Average 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 3 249

Four Regions Of England Now Officially In Drought, East And West Midlands, Yorkshire, Northwest 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 3 258

Projects bringing water to drought-ridden land could end with USAID's dismantling - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 16 Jul 16 1 230

Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 5 305

Solar power in new configurations can support Europe's green transition and energy independence 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 3 241

Synthetic Fuels from Offshore Wind Park 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 4 248

Relief From Drought in Southwest U.S. Likely Isn't Coming, According to New Research 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 7 328

June 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.61 ppm; June 2024 426.91 ppm; June 2023 423.68 ppm 4 hatrack Jul 15 Jul 15 3 278

Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised 0 Dulcinea Jul 15 Jul 15 5 321

Manitoba Burning 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 18 408

Greenland's Bejeweled Ice Sheet 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 8 348

Ecological Risk of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Degradation Products. 0 NNadir Jul 14 Jul 14 3 224

Using lightning to make ammonia out of thin air 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 4 217

'Slow motion crisis': Why some of the most populous cities in the U.S. are sinking - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Jul 14 Jul 14 9 510

Congress, state lawmakers move to juice aviation biofuel production 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 14 Jul 14 0 196

Who Pays the Price for Nuclear's Clean Energy Promise? 3 Caribbeans Jul 14 Jul 14 3 439

Shocked, Shocked!! Major Food Corporations' Promises About Regenerative Farming Mostly Buzzwords, Greenwashing 1 hatrack Jul 14 Jul 14 8 329

OH Regulators Rule Data Centers Must Pay More Upfront Costs (And We'll See How Long This Stance Lasts . . . ) 1 hatrack Jul 14 Jul 14 4 269

SO, ANWR is Doomed? 7 MrWowWow Jul 14 Jul 14 14 1082

Please, in my backyard... 19 NNadir Jul 12 Jul 13 5 803

Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 13 Jul 13 9 336

Atlanta Mandates Reflective "Cool Roofs" (Cue Corporate Pushback & Lawsuits In 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . ) 5 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 8 442

Trump administration yanks $15m in research into Pfas on US farms: 'not just stupid, it's evil' 0 hunter Jul 13 Jul 13 7 375

A Bad Supreme Court Decision Paves the Way for Radioactive Waste Storage in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico 3 Judi Lynn Jul 12 Jul 13 8 360

Grand Canyon Fires Approaching 25,000 Acres So Far; North Rim Visitors Evacuated, Fires Uncontained 3 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 9 470

Global Warming Is Something Republicans Happily Lie About: They're Also Happy To Leverage The Chaos It Produces 0 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 7 325

Study: Far More Plastic Nanowaste In Oceans Than Thought: 27 Million Metric Tons In N. Atlantic Alone 0 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 7 282

Poor Majority Black AL County Had Funds To Deal With Raw Sewage Problem, Then Trump Killed Grant - "DEI!!" 3 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 10 391

Risotto rice under threat from flamingoes in north-eastern Italy 2 cbabe Jul 12 Jul 13 5 355

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Proposed "Hyperscale" Data Center Wants 1/3 Of AL Water Utility's Capacity; Process Fogged By NDAs 3 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 13 11 448

Climate Central: Shifting Cities 4 OKIsItJustMe Jul 11 Jul 12 3 454

Music video with environmental message 1 Sewa Jul 12 Jul 12 1 304

Shitstain Directs National Park Gift Shops To Remove Items With "Anti-American" Content 6 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 11 928

Nuclear Engineer and Nuclear Historian Nick Touran Speaking at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL). 0 NNadir Jul 12 Jul 12 0 257

See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse Short Film Showcase 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 12 13 522

Bull sharks linger in warming Sydney waters 0 marmar Jul 12 Jul 12 2 337

England's Reservoirs At Lowest Levels In 10 Years; Watering Bans Under Discussion 2 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 4 260

HSBC First Major UK Bank To Dump Net-Zero Commitments, Following In Footsteps Of 6 Major US Banks 0 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 5 347

Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier, Which Had Withstood Warming For Decades, Now In Retreat 0 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 5 265

Envision launches world's largest green hydrogen, ammonia plant in Inner Mongolia 1 Caribbeans Jul 11 Jul 11 2 283

SamTrans Approves $20M Hydrogen Fueling Station to Support 118-Units H2 Bus Fleet 1 Caribbeans Jul 11 Jul 11 6 314

Long-Term Study At 8 Sites Across UK Shows That Ancient Forests Are Failing To Regenerate 4 hatrack Jul 11 Jul 11 4 434

110 Of 117 UK Bodies Of Water Tested Revealed PFAS Contamination Above Proposed Safety Level 1 hatrack Jul 11 Jul 11 9 509

How Human Error and Climate Policy Failures Made a Tragedy Worse - Explainers - Heather Cox Richardson 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 11 Jul 11 4 355

Bees vs Hornets: Nature's Most Synchronised Defence System BBC Earth 0 Uncle Joe Jul 10 Jul 10 5 354

Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO2 sink, say researchers 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 10 392

Scientific Confirmation Pending, But 4th Of July Floods Had Global Warming's Fingerprints All Over Them 5 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 3 369

3-Year Phase-In Of Ban On Lead Shot And Bullets For Hunting Starts In 2026 In England, Scotland, Wales 1 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 3 220

Thanks To ALEC And The Louisiana Legislature, Methane Now "Green Energy" And Gets "Green Energy" Tax Credits 0 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 4 259

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO2 to stone 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 10 407

More Volcanic Eruptions, Study Suggests. Now, All Eyes Are On Antarctica 1 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 6 350

AP: Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 6 307

It's About to Rain Flies in Texas, but Only to Stop the Flesh-Eating Maggots 4 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 14 709

Shitstain's NOAA Nominee (A) Never Mentioned Climate (B) Onboard W. Sweeping Budget Cuts (C) Supported Sharpiegate 1 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 4 336

Little That Texas Counties Can Do To Stop People From Building In Flood Plains 0 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 5 379

Congrats to Hatrack on 24th DUversary! 11 SheltieLover Jul 9 Jul 10 14 401

WATCH: How Trump's 'big bill' could reshape U.S. energy supply - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 10 Jul 10 1 312

Senator Whitehouse Delivers 300th Time to Wake Up Speech - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Jul 9 Jul 9 6 334

The Painter Albert Bierstadt Remarks from the 19th Century on the Cost of So Called "Renewable Energy." 2 NNadir Jul 9 Jul 9 5 391

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Sen. Whitehouse Prepares to Deliver 300th Climate Speech: "I'm a persistent son of a gun." - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 9 Jul 9 4 224

Satellite Data Show That Parts Of New Orleans, Including Airport, Are Sinking About Two Inches Per Year 3 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 8 460

'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 9 Jul 9 3 313

Colombia has confirmed its first white hydrogen discovery, identifying significant underground concentrations 5 Caribbeans Jul 8 Jul 9 3 448

IPCC Proposes Including 18-Year Veteran Of Saudi Aramco As Climate Report Author 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 4 325

After 16,386 Consecutive Days Of Violating Its Clean Air Act Permits, Exxon Must Pay $14 Million Fine For Baytown Plant 1 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 4 340

Seawater Surrounding Antarctica Getting Saltier, Helping To Drive Accelerating Loss Of Sea Ice 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 7 318

UK Environment Agency Insider Alleges Years Of Lies, Cover-Up Of Risks Of Sewage Sludge Use On Farmland 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 4 289

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate 0 Judi Lynn Jul 9 Jul 9 6 320

[Carbon Revolution Video] Hydrogen Soars: The Drone Revolution Taking Flight -China's Hydrogen Revolution continues 0 Caribbeans Jul 8 Jul 8 2 222

54% Of Deaths Directly Attributed To Tropical Cyclones Over 11-Year Period Came From Inland - i.e. Freshwater Flooding 0 hatrack Jul 8 Jul 8 2 255

Trump administration pulls back on plans to rewrite Biden-era asbestos ban 0 Eugene Jul 8 Jul 8 3 337

Getting Harder To Unleash "Energy Dominance" As Federal Workers Who Permit Development Head For The Exits 3 hatrack Jul 8 Jul 8 8 483

Ted Cruz Pushed For (And Got) More Cuts To National Weather Service & NOAA In Big Turd Bill Just 3 Days Before TX Floods 4 hatrack Jul 8 Jul 8 40 1103

Smaller nuclear reactors spark renewed interest in a once-shunned energy source 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 7 Jul 7 2 293

US military cuts climate scientists off from vital satellite sea-ice data 2 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 7 9 385

Residents near America's largest steel mill fight for cleaner air - CBS News 1 Rhiannon12866 Jul 7 Jul 7 2 317

Study warns 1.5-degree warming limit can't prevent dangers of melting glaciers - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Jul 6 Jul 6 7 308

2 Hours with Earth's Most Extraordinary Animals BBC Earth 1 Uncle Joe Jul 6 Jul 6 10 539

A Modern Blueprint for Coastal Power: China's Offshore Solar-Hydrogen Integration 1 Caribbeans Jul 6 Jul 6 1 337

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