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Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland: “If Vladimir Putin had a plan to foul our air and water, wreck public health and drive America over the cliff of irreversible lethal climate change, it would look exactly like [EPA chief] Lee Zeldin’s plan. This is a plan...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Mar 21, 2025 at 09:01 AM PDT
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EPA chief Zeldin lies about U.S. energy dominance, 'EV mandate', vows to increase pollution, cancer, deadly toxins Also: Judge orders thousands of fired federal workers back to work 'immediately'... We've got a few explainers on today's BradCast. But I...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 06:55 PM PDT
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Our world is a dynamic place. We live on a planet where giant continents move around and speeding asteroids clobber us from time to time, all but pushing the reset button. The climate has been so cold, the Earth was once a “snowball,” and so warm that...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 09:00 AM PDT
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There are profits to be made as crypto bros infiltrate the federal government. And the robbery will be epic as well. And money laundering will swell. And the computers doing the mining will keep coal fired power plants spewing filth into the air. The...
by ScottPLA
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on Sat Feb 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM PST
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Guest: Law Dork's Chris Geidner Also: 7.0 quake, tsunami warning in CA Island nations fight for survival amid climate change at U.N. High Court... The cruelty really does appear to be the point, as discussed on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Dec 05, 2024 at 06:45 PM PST
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How (and Why) to 'Extend Olive Branch' to MAGA Family Members Over the Holidays: 'BradCast' 11/21/24 Guest: Rich Logis of 'Leaving MAGA' Also: War crimes warrant for Netanyahu Hegseth 'sexual assault' details; Gaetz out as Trump A.G... It's a jam-packed show today, as we try to fit as much in as we can for our last BradCast until after the...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Nov 21, 2024 at 07:03 PM PST
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"Greenhouse gas pollution at these levels will guarantee a human and economic trainwreck for every country, without exception." — Climate Defiance, upon hearing the recent news that atmospheric concentrations of all three major greenhouse gases hit...
by Meteor Blades
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on Fri Nov 15, 2024 at 09:38 AM PST
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Guest: Jean Su of Center for Biological Diversity Also: U.S. Senate updates in AZ, PA Trump loyalists, lackeys named to key positions... What should be done -- what can be done -- to shore up advances made in recent years in the fight against climate...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Nov 12, 2024 at 07:05 PM PST
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A new fossil of a vampire squid bridges a 120 million-year gap in their fossil record. Vampire squid today are adapted to low oxygen, deep sea environments. I for one might welcome our new super-cuttlefish overlords, considering that it looks less...
by annieli
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on Sun Oct 27, 2024 at 03:02 PM PDT
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Also: Bad news for Trump as more of his former pals and White House staffers put country before party to endorse the Democratic nominee... We've got a number of encouraging news items on today's BradCast regarding both this year's elections in...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Oct 15, 2024 at 07:38 PM PDT
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary....
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Oct 12, 2024 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Global coal consumption reached a new peak of 8.42 bt (billion tons) in 2022, and again of 8.54 bt in 2023.Like with almost all other forms of energy, coal use dipped during the global COVID ...
by agramante
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on Mon Sep 23, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Coal is poisonous in all circumstances. That’s just reality. Chunks of coal, coal ash, leaching from the spoils of coal mining, and coal dust, which is the point of this diary. It’s pretty much ...
by John B Des Moines
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on Sun Jul 21, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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China building two-thirds of world’s wind and solar projects https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/11/china-building-twice-as-much-wind-and-solar-power-as-rest-of-world-report China is also building 21 of the 90 planned nuclear power...
by gmoke
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on Fri Jul 12, 2024 at 06:05 PM PDT
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An op-ed in The Hill from the right-wing Heartland Institute showcases a new idea that, at first glance, seems like a joke: The U.S. should drop attempts to address the climate crisis because ...
by Mark Sumner
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on Mon Jun 17, 2024 at 09:30 AM PDT
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If you trek over to Open Secrets, you’ll find that quite a number of politicians, including some Democrats, are fond of campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry. In fact, during his career, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has been a...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun May 26, 2024 at 10:59 AM PDT
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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
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 07:52 AM PDT
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Recently ran across this report on techxplore.com that does a deep dive into the sources of German power production since 1990, based on data from Clean Energy Wire: One year ago, Germany took its last three nuclear power stations offline. When it...
by Irontortoise
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 05:21 PM PDT
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The Nation has picked up a hit piece that I originally read on DKos. This is the latest in a long campaign of misinformation and court filings designed to stop people from switching away from fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles. First, understand...
by CorpFlunky
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 10:19 AM PDT
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Some good news for reducing GHG emissions in the USA. Due to the big drop in natural gas prices much of the coal burning fleet has been idled in favor of gas burners. We have dialed back coal consumption to the level during 1964. The previous low point...
by RustyRobot
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:24 AM PDT
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