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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21h
Wind and solar supplied 33% of EU electricity in the 12 months to August 2026, against 29% from fossil. In 2016 it was 13% and 43%.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Argument For Clean Energy Has Flipped IEA's new "Electrification" lists its benefits as energy security, competitiveness, then emissions Its thesis can be traced to 2009, when M Jacobson wrote in Sci American we could power 100% of the planet w/renewables www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/the-arg...
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The Argument For Clean Energy Has Flipped | OGN Daily
It all started as a moral argument for taking climate action, but that driver has now been relegated to third place.
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 23h
Plug-in #EV share of new passenger-car sales/registrations around August 2026, counting BEVs + PHEVs/EREVs. The remarkable thing isn’t Norway approaching 100%. It’s who else is on the list. Different continents. Different incomes. Different grids. Different governments. Same technological S-curve.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As a lifelong baseball fan, can I say: this is a truly bad idea. Fenway Park is for baseball, Teton Park is for wildlife www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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Electric Nick @electric-nick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The battery-electric vehicle transition in Europe, in one picture: ⚡🇪🇺
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most.
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The EU has asked China to voluntarily restrict exports of hybrid cars. A focus on hybrids is overdue. Since EU introduced tariffs on BEVs in October 2024, net imports of Chinese PHEVs alone have grown from neutral to €600 million monthly european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org/s/hIuMig
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A new study finds that climate pollution caused by just 122 companies led to a 15% decline in annual average Western mountain snowpacks. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/scie...
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Scientists link fossil fuel producers to the West’s worsening water shortages » Yale Climate Connections
A new study blames 122 companies for contributing to severe drought in the region.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 22/09/2026
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Toyota claims plan for 400,000 factory robots won’t replace human workers
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EV Sales At 32% — No, Make That 38%! — By 2030 cleantechnica.com/2026/09/20/e...
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Harvard Anticipates Rapid EV Sales Recovery, Despite Obstacles
Harvard economists calculate that EV sales will accelerate rapidly in the US, despite last year's sharp U-turn in federal energy policy.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS For the first time ever, @iea.org has published a dedicated Electrification Report. An absolute treasure trove of data. Here are the key takeaways that stood out to me when I peer-reviewed it. 🧵
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
Gas averaging $4.48 a gallon nationwide. Diesel just hit a record $6.51 average. Saudi oil shipments to parts of Europe are being suspended. And Trump is publicly talking about blowing up Iran: “My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.”
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"What is driving up gas prices right now isn’t just the price of oil ... It’s the price of diesel. The cost to get the gas to the gas station is the driving factor behind the steady increase at the pump." www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/d...
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How record diesel prices will rip through the U.S. economy. Trucks, rails are only the start
Record diesel prices are already walloping the transportation sector, and if energy prices stay high, the economic impact will spread.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Energy Expert: Renewables Will Save $Trillions & Millions of Lives Avoid 7 mil air pol deaths/y Slow then reverses global warming Reduce energy needs 55% & energy costs 66% Create 23 mil more jobs than lost Need less land than current energy Keep grids stable sonomasun.com/2026/09/17/e...
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Energy Expert: Renewables Will Save Trillions, Millions of Lives - Sonoma Valley Sun
Stanford Professor Provides a Roadmap By Larry Barnett The world’s use of fossil fuels has been marked by successive crises and temporary solutions. The widespread use of coal for heating and power ge...
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 18/09/2026
Liontown's Kathleen Valley: targeted 60% renewable electricity, delivered 81% in FY25, then ~85% by March 2026 — smashing it by 25 points. 100% underground lithium, 2.8Mtpa by FY27. The mine of the future, built now. 🔋⚡ #Bettrification #Solar #SWB #Renewables
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Australian miner energizes 95 MW offgrid wind-solar-storage plant - pv magazine Global
Australian miner Liontown Resources has flicked the switch on one of the largest off-grid renewable energy hybrid power stations in Australia.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Second Biggest Oil Decline in Last 60 Years! IEA's September forecast has global oil demand falling 2.5 million barrels/day. Most since Pandemic. IEA forecast swung 3.2 million barrels/day since January 2026, when it said oil would gain 700k barrels/day. 247wallst.com/investing/20... #energysky
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Iran War Triggers Historic Oil Demand Wipeout: Plunge Ranks as Second-Worst in 60 Years
The IEA has revised its 2026 oil demand outlook by more than 3 million barrels per day in just eight months, and the agency now warns the worst may still be ahead if Strait of Hormuz traffic fails to ...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
European gas is above €82/MWh - the highest since late 2022. Hormuz remains largely shut and gas storage is at 68% going into winter. None of this started in Europe but we pay for it. The only exit is using less gas. Heat pumps, electrified industry, insulation.
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Jack C.M @foxmental.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ford Just Confirmed A Bronco With A BYD Battery and 900km Range. Via @theelectricvking #EVs #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #KillGasCars ⚡🚘🔌🚗🔋 youtu.be/17dNFBS7VSM?...
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Ford Just Confirmed A Bronco With A BYD Battery and 900km Range
Ford Just Confirmed A Bronco With A BYD Battery and 900km Range Ford has confirmed the Bronco Basecamp — a China-built EREV SUV developed with joint-venture partner Jiangling Motors — for Australia…
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
China's coal and gas fall 4% in August!
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 15/09/2026
Extraordinary milestone reached. China, the world’s largest car market: ⚡ All Top 10 best-selling cars, August = NEVs 🔋 9 of the Top 10 were fully electric BEVs ⛽ The first pure petrol car? #13 It’s an extinction event for the combustion engine. #EV
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Good morning with good news: Solar generated 30% or more of 10 nations' power in Europe during August! Latvia 60% Hungary 54% Lithuania 42% Estonia 40% Portugal 36% Spain 36% Germany 32% Belgium 32% Greece 31% Netherlands 30% Luxemburg was 62% in July. EU was 24.2% solar in August. #energysky
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Climategate is more or less the bedrock of 2026 America
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, #Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife.bsky.social in book #CurbingTraffic
Teens riding bikes on Copenhagen bike infrastructure. #LetKidsBike #LetKidsWalk
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Maria Lindqvist,PhD (Åbo,Stockholm,Uppsala,Roma) @amazingmariapian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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In a first, Utah got more power from solar than any other source
The state used to run on coal, relying on it for as much as 78 percent of its power a decade ago. But now renewables are surging.
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oc88.bsky.social @oc88.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Court deals blow to Trump’s plan to revive coal - The Washington Post apple.news/ALbf-XDN4Qv2...
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Court deals blow to Trump’s plan to revive coal — The Washington Post
Emergency orders forcing plants to remain open have cost ratepayers nearly $1 billion, according to utility filings.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good morning with good news: US solar deployment surged 45% to 11.4 GW in Q2 2026. Solar, wind & batteries were 91% of new capacity in H1 2026. Wind was 21%, its best H1 since 2022. EIA says solar will be 51%, battery 28%, wind 14% & gas 7% for 2026! pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/09/10/s... #energysky
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Global battery demand hit 1TWh by the end of July. That took 12 months in 2023, 11 in 2024, 9 in 2025. This year, 7. Grid storage is up 28% even as Chinese demand fell 6%. China's share: 60% in 2025, 37% now. The rest of the world is catching up. Data: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 10/09/2026
China's EV fleet displaced an estimated 1 million barrels of oil per day in 2024 🔒 Over a single year, that avoided demand is roughly DOUBLE the government-held strategic oil reserves of OECD Europe (179 million barrels at the end of 2025). ember-energy.org/lat...
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New study: No negative effects on home values near large wind or solar projects www.thestarpress.com/story/news/l...
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Ball State study finds no home value losses near wind, solar projects
Researchers examined housing markets near wind farms and solar sites and found no sustained drop in residential sale prices.
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Dakota Jones @kkaiser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Plug-in hybrid vehicles emit six times more CO₂ in real-world driving than official EU lab tests suggest. An analysis of data from 220,000 vehicles equipped with fuel monitors found that the average PHEV produces 145 g/km on the road, compared with 24 g/km on paper. evwire.com/p/phev-emiss...
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Plug-in hybrids emit six times more CO₂ than official EU tests claim | EVwire
Plug-in hybrids emit 6x more CO2 in real-world driving than EU tests show, Transport & Environment analysis reveals. Automakers lobby to block 2027 emissions rule.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Electric trucks were ~45% of heavy truck sales in China during June 2026. That compares to ~25% for all of 2025. China will put on the road ~430,000 EV heavy trucks from June 2026 to May 2027, if the June 45% share is maintained for 12 months! Incredible! www.msn.com/en-us/autos/... #energysky
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
China's net greenhouse gas emissions *fell* this past quarter. Why? Because rapidly expanding electric vehicle use is putting a serious dent in oil demand. We could do that too. But we're not. We have the slowest EV update in the developed world, thanks to Trump.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Skyrocket! Australia's EV sales skyrocketed 171% in August 2026 versus August 2025 Plug-ins were 35.3% of auto sales, with full-electric autos at 25.6% and plug-in hybrids at 9.7%! Latest oil price spike plus Chinese EV models skyrocket EV sales! timesindonesia.co.id/english/6070... #energysky
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Australian EV Sales Hit Record High as Chinese Brands Gain Market Share
ustralia’s electric vehicle sales reached a record 24.9 percent market share in August 2026, as Chinese brands such as BYD and Geely continued to strengthen their presence.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school. If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026
We're just hurtling toward immense destruction & suffering & the entire US political class has agreed it's better not to talk about it. "Insanity" barely covers it.
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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Climate Target
Carbon removal combined with emissions reduction is the only remaining pathway to avert catastrophic levels of warming, a new report warns.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Newsom withheld *legislatively appropriated* school AC funds for 2 years. Now he's handing them to a fossil fuel company, the week after half a million kids had their school day changed by extreme heat. If that's not Trumpian, I don't know what is. Shameful. calmatters.org/environment/...
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California lawmakers let schools' AC funding lapse, handing $191 million back to utilities
Despite sweltering classrooms and a heat wave, the state chose to return unspent CalSHAPE funds to ratepayers.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning with good news: India & Australia set rooftop solar records. India's rooftop installs jump 136% to 6.6 GW in H1 2026 & 138% to 3.8 GW in Q2 2026! Australia set record of 1 GW in Q2 2026! www.pv-magazine-india.com/2026/08/31/i... reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-sola... #energysky
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India adds 6.6 GW of rooftop solar in H1 2026 - pv magazine India
Q2 installations reached 3.8 GW, up 41% quarter-on-quarter and 136% year-on-year
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Solar is doing more to reduce energy poverty than any other tech! Solar is now the single biggest addition to grid capacity in many African countries. Ten countries will each add at least 1 GW of solar between 2023 and 2026. ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Offshore wind set to be the ‘next frontier’ in renewable power in Europe "increasingly treated as ‘strategic infrastructure’...one of the ‘few scalable, utility‑grade renewables capable of delivering very large annual increments of low‑carbon electricity‘." dredgewire.com/offshore-win...
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Offshore wind set to be the ‘next frontier’ in renewable power in Europe - DredgeWire
Offshore wind in Europe is moving into a ‘supremacy phase’, as governments shift from action to execution, a new report from GlobalData has said. According to GlobalData’s report, Europe Renewable Ene...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 31/08/2026
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El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 31/08/2026
Two dead and at least 15 missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon
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Two dead and at least 15 missing after flash flood in Arizona’s Grand Canyon
National Park Service confirms second death from weekend flash flood as area braces for more storms
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
USA's new renewable energy and battery capacity growing 48% from July 2026 to June 2027, and reaching about 83 GW, is wonderful news! Solar and batteries are reshaping global grids, including USA's many grids/ Links: www.eia.gov/electricity/... electrek.co/2026/08/28/r... #energysky
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Renewables' installed capacity to beat natural gas within a year – EIA data
Renewables’ capacity is likely to surpass natural gas by summer 2027 or sooner, according to new data just released by the US EIA.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good morning with good news: US will add ~83 GW of new renewable & battery capacity from July 2026 to June 2027, compared to 56 GW in prior 12 months! New RE & battery capacity will surge ~48%! Wow! Large solar adds 44 GW Small solar up ~6 GW Wind up 10 GW Battery up 23 GW Links next. #energysky
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AndyBauer @qbdudba.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Views from the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. #photography #grandcanyon #river #coloradoriver #nature #photography
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 28/08/2026
Not sure why this gets lost in basically every conversation about energy affordability, but the bills we pay depend on both prices and usage. Energy efficiency, from appliance standards to building codes, is the most effective energy affordability policy in US history and there's not a close 2nd.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/08/2026
"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Tech Xplore - Technology and Engineering news [Unofficial] @techxplore.com.web.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
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In US, rare earths extracted from coal mine wastewater
In the Appalachian region stretching through the U.S. state of West Virginia, reddish water flowing out of retired coal mines is acidic, full of heavy metals and toxic to the environment.
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