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(Click here for an interactive version of the map above showing brief details for each coal plant.) The Biden-Harris administration on Thursday released its final rules to curb emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants. This will force...
by Meteor Blades
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:52 AM PDT
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When Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss introduced the word “disinformation” to readers of their 1980 roman à clef spy novel “The Spike”—deriving the term from the Russian dezinformatsiya, the title of a KGB black propaganda department—it didn’t make...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 269 Recommends
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March 27 & 28, 2024 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest They say March comes in like a lion (which it did) and goes out like a lamb (which it also did) but it was a near thing. Just before the month closed out we had a series of very windy days. Not cold:...
by OceanDiver
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 49 Recommends
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There was a bit a of news last week from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the 32-year-old process, backed by treaty, by which limits on carbon emissions are negotiated. To the government ministers and negotiators...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 169 Recommends
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Republicans hated the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate-friendly provisions from the get-go. Not a single GOP senator or representative voted for it in 2022. Over the past few years, a number of congressional Republicans have given up outright...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 185 Recommends
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At Sierra magazine, in a no-paywall article, veteran investigative reporter Rebecca Burns writes on Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition. Two or three paragraphs cannot...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 224 Recommends
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March 2024 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest The wind has been nonstop in the Pacific Northwest islands for the past two weeks, aside from a couple of gloriously calm days last week. It’s been blowing 20-40 knots from the Southeast/South, and gusting...
by OceanDiver
on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:00 AM PDT
with 72 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wildfires,
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 10:01 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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The eight counties that make up California’s San Joaquin Valley Air District form the nation’s most productive farming area. In 2022, it produced citrus, almonds, tomatoes, pistachios, walnuts, alfalfa, corn, winter wheat, rice, livestock, and other...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 187 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
with 46 Recommends
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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
with 237 Recommends
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! How? Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. You can push your local politicians to act. It will make a difference!...
by birches
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 10:21 AM PST
with 11 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
with 39 Recommends
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Polls have shown her to be the only candidate who has a ghost of a chance of edging out Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, but Nikki Haley has a tough row to hoe to achieve that unless the courts take him out of the running before...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
with 240 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 08:08 AM PST
with 56 Recommends
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November 16, 2023 Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest With November we start getting a series of storms rolling into the Pacific Northwest, and up in this part of the Salish Sea that means wind. On a day we were returning from a trip to the mainland the wind...
by OceanDiver
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 07:00 AM PST
with 66 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
with 36 Recommends
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Two years ago, wagering that Michigan would enact a clean energy package like the one Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed Tuesday would be a good way to lose your rent money. The state House of Representatives had been in Republican hands for a...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Dec 03, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
with 202 Recommends
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 08:19 AM PST
with 49 Recommends
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