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Only One Thing Certain On New Crypto Legislation: It's Going To Keep Jacking Up Energy Demand, Climate Damage 0 hatrack Jul 17 Jul 17 7 769

Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 17 Jul 17 4 1566

Study: By 2060, Outdoor Summer Sports May Be Unsafe For Japan's Kids; Baseball And Rugby Teams Already Feeling The Heat 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 4 240

Toxic Algae Bloom Has Shut Down S. Australia's Shellfish Farms, As Well As Beach Harvesting 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 3 222

Oh, Goody: After The Big Bullshit Bill, Here Come The 2026 House Budget Plans For Interior, EPA 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 4 286

Minutes ago: Tsunami warning issued after 7.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska. 0 Tonk Jul 16 Jul 16 10 479

Local watchdog group releases report on Moss Landing Battery plant fire [BESS insanity] 2 Caribbeans Jul 16 Jul 16 4 495

A Whale Saved My Life Close Encounters BBC Earth 2 Uncle Joe Jul 14 Jul 16 12 610

Restored wetlands reap benefits for climate, drought-resilience after just one year: study 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 16 Jul 16 7 1328

Hillsborough, NC Had Been Counting On FEMA For Flood Protection. Then Came Trump, Followed By Chantal 1 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 14 461

Freedumb! W. Renewable Energy Tax Credits Gone For Utilities, Consumers Will Pay More - Up To $600+/Year 1 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 2 325

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 5 396

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 3 297

Four Regions Of England Now Officially In Drought, East And West Midlands, Yorkshire, Northwest 0 hatrack Jul 16 Jul 16 3 305

Projects bringing water to drought-ridden land could end with USAID's dismantling - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 16 Jul 16 1 287

Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill 3 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 5 369

Solar power in new configurations can support Europe's green transition and energy independence 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 3 301

Synthetic Fuels from Offshore Wind Park 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 4 307

Relief From Drought in Southwest U.S. Likely Isn't Coming, According to New Research 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 15 Jul 15 7 397

June 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.61 ppm; June 2024 426.91 ppm; June 2023 423.68 ppm 4 hatrack Jul 15 Jul 15 3 360

Trump administration says it won't publish major climate change reports on NASA website as promised 0 Dulcinea Jul 15 Jul 15 5 386

Manitoba Burning 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 18 458

Greenland's Bejeweled Ice Sheet 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 8 404

Ecological Risk of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Degradation Products. 0 NNadir Jul 14 Jul 14 3 292

Using lightning to make ammonia out of thin air 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 14 Jul 14 4 285

'Slow motion crisis': Why some of the most populous cities in the U.S. are sinking - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Jul 14 Jul 14 9 573

Congress, state lawmakers move to juice aviation biofuel production 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 14 Jul 14 0 260

Who Pays the Price for Nuclear's Clean Energy Promise? 3 Caribbeans Jul 14 Jul 14 3 547

Shocked, Shocked!! Major Food Corporations' Promises About Regenerative Farming Mostly Buzzwords, Greenwashing 1 hatrack Jul 14 Jul 14 8 392

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 4 327

Environment & Energy Continued...

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SO, ANWR is Doomed? 7 MrWowWow Jul 14 Jul 14 14 1218

Please, in my backyard... 19 NNadir Jul 12 Jul 13 5 1043

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 9 389

Atlanta Mandates Reflective "Cool Roofs" (Cue Corporate Pushback & Lawsuits In 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . ) 5 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 8 545

Trump administration yanks $15m in research into Pfas on US farms: 'not just stupid, it's evil' 0 hunter Jul 13 Jul 13 7 426

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 8 440

Grand Canyon Fires Approaching 25,000 Acres So Far; North Rim Visitors Evacuated, Fires Uncontained 3 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 9 533

Global Warming Is Something Republicans Happily Lie About: They're Also Happy To Leverage The Chaos It Produces 0 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 7 377

Study: Far More Plastic Nanowaste In Oceans Than Thought: 27 Million Metric Tons In N. Atlantic Alone 0 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 7 374

Poor Majority Black AL County Had Funds To Deal With Raw Sewage Problem, Then Trump Killed Grant - "DEI!!" 3 hatrack Jul 13 Jul 13 10 454

Risotto rice under threat from flamingoes in north-eastern Italy 2 cbabe Jul 12 Jul 13 5 421

Proposed "Hyperscale" Data Center Wants 1/3 Of AL Water Utility's Capacity; Process Fogged By NDAs 3 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 13 11 540

Climate Central: Shifting Cities 4 OKIsItJustMe Jul 11 Jul 12 3 557

Music video with environmental message 1 Sewa Jul 12 Jul 12 1 378

Shitstain Directs National Park Gift Shops To Remove Items With "Anti-American" Content 6 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 11 1079

Nuclear Engineer and Nuclear Historian Nick Touran Speaking at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (PPPL). 0 NNadir Jul 12 Jul 12 0 317

See a Salamander Grow From a Single Cell in this Incredible Time-lapse Short Film Showcase 4 Uncle Joe Jul 12 Jul 12 13 615

Bull sharks linger in warming Sydney waters 0 marmar Jul 12 Jul 12 2 389

England's Reservoirs At Lowest Levels In 10 Years; Watering Bans Under Discussion 2 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 4 326

HSBC First Major UK Bank To Dump Net-Zero Commitments, Following In Footsteps Of 6 Major US Banks 0 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 5 398

Argentina's Perito Moreno Glacier, Which Had Withstood Warming For Decades, Now In Retreat 0 hatrack Jul 12 Jul 12 5 329

Envision launches world's largest green hydrogen, ammonia plant in Inner Mongolia 1 Caribbeans Jul 11 Jul 11 2 382

SamTrans Approves $20M Hydrogen Fueling Station to Support 118-Units H2 Bus Fleet 1 Caribbeans Jul 11 Jul 11 6 398

Long-Term Study At 8 Sites Across UK Shows That Ancient Forests Are Failing To Regenerate 4 hatrack Jul 11 Jul 11 4 538

110 Of 117 UK Bodies Of Water Tested Revealed PFAS Contamination Above Proposed Safety Level 1 hatrack Jul 11 Jul 11 9 595

How Human Error and Climate Policy Failures Made a Tragedy Worse - Explainers - Heather Cox Richardson 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 11 Jul 11 4 412

Bees vs Hornets: Nature's Most Synchronised Defence System BBC Earth 0 Uncle Joe Jul 10 Jul 10 5 417

Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO2 sink, say researchers 1 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 10 448

Scientific Confirmation Pending, But 4th Of July Floods Had Global Warming's Fingerprints All Over Them 5 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 3 439

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 3 260

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Thanks To ALEC And The Louisiana Legislature, Methane Now "Green Energy" And Gets "Green Energy" Tax Credits 0 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 4 311

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO2 to stone 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 10 450

More Volcanic Eruptions, Study Suggests. Now, All Eyes Are On Antarctica 1 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 7 413

AP: Over 90 arrests made in global crackdown on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 10 Jul 10 6 346

It's About to Rain Flies in Texas, but Only to Stop the Flesh-Eating Maggots 4 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 14 800

Shitstain's NOAA Nominee (A) Never Mentioned Climate (B) Onboard W. Sweeping Budget Cuts (C) Supported Sharpiegate 1 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 4 384

Little That Texas Counties Can Do To Stop People From Building In Flood Plains 0 hatrack Jul 10 Jul 10 5 429

Congrats to Hatrack on 24th DUversary! 11 SheltieLover Jul 9 Jul 10 14 521

WATCH: How Trump's 'big bill' could reshape U.S. energy supply - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 10 Jul 10 1 355

Senator Whitehouse Delivers 300th Time to Wake Up Speech - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Jul 9 Jul 9 6 390

The Painter Albert Bierstadt Remarks from the 19th Century on the Cost of So Called "Renewable Energy." 2 NNadir Jul 9 Jul 9 5 457

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 4 264

Satellite Data Show That Parts Of New Orleans, Including Airport, Are Sinking About Two Inches Per Year 3 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 8 512

'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 3 356

Colombia has confirmed its first white hydrogen discovery, identifying significant underground concentrations 5 Caribbeans Jul 8 Jul 9 3 590

IPCC Proposes Including 18-Year Veteran Of Saudi Aramco As Climate Report Author 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 4 600

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 4 393

Seawater Surrounding Antarctica Getting Saltier, Helping To Drive Accelerating Loss Of Sea Ice 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 7 362

UK Environment Agency Insider Alleges Years Of Lies, Cover-Up Of Risks Of Sewage Sludge Use On Farmland 0 hatrack Jul 9 Jul 9 4 330

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand How Life Makes Clouds, and Their Discoveries May Drastically Improve Climate 0 Judi Lynn Jul 9 Jul 9 6 373

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