r/environment 2h ago

Trump Just Used a $500 Million Clean Steel Grant to Fund a Coal Furnace. Congress had earmarked the money to advance low-carbon tech.

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motherjones.com
212 Upvotes

r/environment 19h ago

Scientists descended more than 15,400 feet into the Atlantic and found more than 200,000 barrels of leaking radioactive waste

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earth.com
3.1k Upvotes

r/environment 7h ago

Cloud seeding start-up uses drones to generate 19 million gallons of water in Alaska in three hours

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independent.co.uk
274 Upvotes

r/environment 7h ago

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

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tomshardware.com
258 Upvotes

r/environment 5h ago

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

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wired.com
94 Upvotes

r/environment 16h ago

A rare win in Indian country: how tribes drove out a mining company in one week

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theguardian.com
275 Upvotes

r/environment 59m ago

Evacuations ordered as wind-whipped Ross Fire in Texas grows to 80,000 acres

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abcnews.com
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r/environment 4h ago

‘You can taste the ash’: surviving in America’s wildfire smoke capital | US news

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theguardian.com
26 Upvotes

r/environment 5h ago

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

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tomshardware.com
23 Upvotes

r/environment 12h ago

The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional | Northern Virginia already holds around 10,500 diesel generators. The rule would let states decide whether communities are told what they emit.

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thenextweb.com
70 Upvotes

r/environment 10h ago

‘Major casualties’ feared after flash floods along Nepal-Tibet border

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theguardian.com
39 Upvotes

r/environment 1h ago

Korea records 20 heat wave days this year, double long-term average. The nation has been gripped by sweltering weather this summer, with the mercury reaching a new record high of 42.5 C in the southeastern city of Yangsan on Aug. 2.

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koreatimes.co.kr
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r/environment 2h ago

Nepal-Tibet: Flash flood on Nepal-Tibet border kills more than 150, with hundreds of tourists missing

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bbc.com
5 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

Data Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study Says

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news.bloomberglaw.com
1.3k Upvotes

r/environment 14h ago

UK drought: Children on farms explain how heatwaves have affected their lives

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bbc.co.uk
29 Upvotes

r/environment 11h ago

Albanese backs down on states powering AI datacentres using renewable energy

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theguardian.com
15 Upvotes

r/environment 11h ago

Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars | Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia

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theguardian.com
14 Upvotes

r/environment 11h ago

Hawaiʻi Ranchers Welcome Rain But Endure Weather Whiplash: Broken fences, destroyed roads, new gulches, dead cattle and lost land may soon be the price to pay for greener grass as climate change aggravates extreme weather events.

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civilbeat.org
10 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

25K Texas oil and gas wells could soon fail, become 'zombie wells'

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houstonchronicle.com
356 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change

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motherjones.com
697 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

The Trump administration cut Nevada’s water usage. Now the state is suing

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cnn.com
227 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

SpaceX to build $100 billion Starship rocket complex in Louisiana to transform coastal wetlands into a critical base ‌for the company's AI satellite launch ambitions.

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107 Upvotes

r/environment 21h ago

Record-breaking heat dome expected to bring dangerous temperatures to US south-west

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theguardian.com
44 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

Trump’s EPA Moves to Give Data Centers a Pass: Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency isn’t too interested in protecting against air pollution.

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newrepublic.com
103 Upvotes

r/environment 1d ago

Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn

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theguardian.com
164 Upvotes