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Louisiana governor-elect names former Trump appointee to lead environmental quality agency 6 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 298

Sand mining in Vietnam's Mekong Delta sinks homes, livelihoods 6 Jim__ Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 443

Politico: Biden's clean energy goals have a union problem 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 430

Up to 12 Xe-100 Small Modular Nuclear Reactors planned for Washington State. 6 NNadir Jul 2023 Aug 2023 8 743

Texas voters to decide whether to put billions toward gas power plants 6 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 445

AP: EU nations reach major breakthrough to stop shipping plastic waste to poor countries 6 OKIsItJustMe Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 303

Feral Horses Shot by Helicopter in Plans To Cull 14,000 (Australia) 6 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 510

Texas grid faces winter after failed attempt to get more power online 6 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 510

Study: Even If They All Survived, Planting A Trillion Trees Would Cut Warming By 0.15C By 2100 6 hatrack Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 671

Hydrogen semi truck production began Monday in Coolidge Arizona 6 Beachnutt Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 583

Too Late? 6 Brenda Feb 10 Feb 11 7 417

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia 6 Think. Again. Mar 1 Mar 1 6 377

Uh Oh, people intend to transport radioactive waste from the wind industry by rail. 6 NNadir Jul 2023 Jul 2023 10 687

Hidden hydrogen Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel? 6 multigraincracker Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 723

Spot Shortages, Price Spikes For Rice, Onions, Olive Oil; Food Supply "At Inflection Point" - UNFAO 6 hatrack Sep 2023 Sep 2023 10 1078

Saguaro cacti collapsing in Arizona extreme heat, scientist says 6 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 29 1288

Why I'm against hydrogen cells, central solar plants, and question nuclear options? 6 RoeVWade Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 728

Potential & Challenges of Using Hydrogen to Decarbonise Indian Railways -CSTEP 6 Caribbeans Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 728

Long lines and broken chargers: Demand for powering EVs outpaces infrastructure 6 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 8809

DeSantis: FL Last-Resort Insurer "Is Not Solvent"; Not Cooperating W. Senate Investigation Led By Whitehouse (D-RI) 6 hatrack Mar 21 Mar 21 16 790

Energy.gov: Clean Hydrogen Takes Center Stage at COP28 in Dubai 6 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 377

The Current Governor Of Florida Describes Himself As "Not A Global Warming Person" - Well, Good Luck With That 6 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 640

Rain Comes to the Arctic, With a Cascade of Troubling Changes 6 Brenda Mar 14 Mar 15 9 585

Plug confirms nine clean hydrogen grant awards from US DoE 6 Think. Again. Mar 19 Mar 19 2 595

Exxon doubles down on carbon capture, this time with direct air capture of CO2 on top of CCS. 6 Eugene Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 775

'So many ways hydrogen can go wrong': Hub announcements viewed with caution 6 NickB79 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 526

Reuters: First Solar plans $1.1 billion investment in fifth U.S. panel factory 6 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 452

BBC: Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet 6 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2023 Aug 2023 28 1129

If the First Solar Entrepreneur Hadn't Been Kidnapped, Would Fossil Fuels Have Dominated the 20th Century 6 Brenda Oct 2023 Oct 2023 22 587

'White hydrogen' could help save the world. Scientists just found one of the largest deposits 6 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 872

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Solar and battery storage prices have dropped almost 90% in 10 years 5 Think. Again. Sep 2023 Sep 2023 9 599

So, is there any account of the huge death toll from the tritium release at Fukushima? 5 NNadir Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 844

Santa Cruz Metro leans in to hydrogen-fueled future 5 Caribbeans Aug 2023 Sep 2023 4 674

U.S. Department of Energy Analysis Confirms California's Salton Sea Region to Be a Rich Domestic Lithium Resource 5 Kennah Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 628

Excellent news from Montana! 5 SleeplessinSoCal Aug 2023 Aug 2023 16 667

Independent.ie: The faster we hit climate change tipping points, the greater the risk to our surviv... 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 526

FT.com: How China cornered the market for clean tech 5 Caribbeans Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 565

(The Guardian) Cop28: 'failure is not an option,' says summit president - as it happened 5 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 0 339

Just read an interesting article about a natural, self-sustaining nuclear reaction that occured here on Earth........... 5 RussellCattle Mar 2 Mar 3 9 595

FL Homeowners Shocked, Shocked To Discover Shitty Underfunded Insurance Companies Not Coming Through 5 hatrack Aug 2023 Aug 2023 15 828

Heat Waves Are Killing Older Women. Are They Also Violating Their Rights? 5 NJCher Aug 2023 Aug 2023 22 1127

Study shows how the meat and dairy sector resists competition from alternative animal products 5 hunter Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1742

If You Hated Summer 2023's Mindbending Weather, Just Wait Until It Becomes Part Of The Good Old Days 5 hatrack Aug 2023 Aug 2023 9 729

Oldie but goodie: A Timeline Of Earth's Average Temperature 5 orthoclad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 10 519

The Guardian: We bailed out the banks but we're not prepared to bail out the planet 5 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2023 Jul 2023 16 569

Australia's nuclear waste is scattered in 'cupboards and filing cabinets' - and the pile is growing 5 Caribbeans Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 600

NPS Rangers Already Deal W. Teh Stoopid Daily; Deadly Heat Makes Doing So Even Tougher 5 hatrack Jul 2023 Jul 2023 9 422

Bare electrical wire and leaning poles on Maui were possible cause of deadly fires 5 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 699

Seems to be a lot of work happening on batteries... 5 Think. Again. Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 666

Study: Hydrogen systems are more advantegeous than battery storage - Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences 5 Caribbeans Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 502

March 13, 2023 was the last time sea surface temperatures were lower than the previous daily high temp 5 OnlinePoker Feb 9 Feb 9 6 342

The Heat Will Kill You First... 5 walkingman Jul 2023 Jul 2023 9 674

Using Hydrogen to Power Disaster Relief - DHS 5 Caribbeans Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 599

Planetary Inferno: Nero fiddles while Rome burns 5 Think. Again. Jul 2023 Jul 2023 9 624

7/20/23 NSIDC Greenland Today: Sudden Shift To Southern Heat - Melt Area 50%+ Of Ice Sheet 5 hatrack Jul 2023 Jul 2023 11 467

turning a huge Kentucky coal mine into an 800 MW solar farm 5 Think. Again. Aug 2023 Aug 2023 13 518

Geoengineering Test Quietly Launches Salt Crystals into Atmosphere - Scientific American 5 Caribbeans Apr 6 Apr 7 1 622

Curious to learn more about Cloud Seeding. 5 SleeplessinSoCal Apr 11 Apr 12 2 553

There's more coal being shipped by sea than ever before 5 NickB79 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 6 601

interisting. 5 AllaN01Bear Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 663

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A nuclear plant's closure was hailed as a green win. Then emissions went up 5 hunter Mar 21 Mar 21 8 558

The rapid warming of Svalbard is triggering a positive feedback loop 5 NickB79 Aug 2023 Aug 2023 19 789

NY Times: The Zombies of the U.S. Tax Code: Why Fossil Fuels Subsidies Seem Impossible to Kill 5 Caribbeans Mar 19 Mar 19 1 396

AGU: 100-Year Floods Could Occur Yearly By End Of 21st Century - (in Coastal Communities) 5 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 409

Mass Die-Off On South Georgia From Bird Flu Includes Seals, Elephant Seals, Multiple Penguin & Other Bird Species 5 hatrack Mar 16 Mar 16 10 507

Study reveals how much carbon damage would cost corporations if they paid for their emissions 5 DBoon Aug 2023 Aug 2023 5 543

Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf - Last Remnant Of Thwaites Glacier Ice Shelves - Collapsing Now 5 hatrack Feb 25 Feb 25 34 1043

Beef, Bullshit And All-American Testosterone - Why White-Wingers Whine About Meat 5 hatrack Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 827

Californians who don't want hydrogen-powered vehicles are forced to pay for them anyway. 5 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 1137

Walk in nearby park 5 Duppers Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 744

What Honda And GM's New Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Partnership Means For The EV Industry 5 Caribbeans Feb 12 Feb 12 2 702

I have thought for a long time that evolution has no answer to plastics. 5 Rustynaerduwell Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 601

Beaver ponds may exacerbate warming in Arctic, scientists say 5 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 445

Microplastics in essentially all U.S. Protein Sources (including plant-based proteins) 5 OKIsItJustMe Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 435

Sea Otters Returned to a Degraded Coastline Ate Enough Crabs to Restore Balance and Cut Erosion by 90% 5 Judi Lynn Feb 5 Feb 5 12 591

More Bad News For Fossil Fuels: Green Hydrogen Is Making Green Steel Happen - CleanTechnica 5 Caribbeans Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 947

COP28 host UAE to massively ramp up oil production, BBC learns 5 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 461

AP: Alaskan fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations dwindle in warming waters 5 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 526

Reuters: Shell seeks partners for renewable assets in India 5 OKIsItJustMe Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 329

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