The Verge
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival … more…
Gizmodo.com
The Department of Energy's emergency order forcing J.H. Campbell Power Plant to stay open has no basis in reality, an appeals court ruled. more…
Gizmodo.com
Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again. more…
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"Higher-class citizens will start owning robot butlers." more…
NPR
The Supreme Court has rejected Trump's mail-in voting restrictions ahead of the midterm elections. And, the Kennedy Center says it is on the brink of bankruptcy and could close soon. more…
Slashdot.org
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world's forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heatin… more…
Yahoo Entertainment
In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fi... more…
Yahoo Entertainment
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to repeal rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natur... more…
Yahoo Entertainment
The EPA's rollback of emissions rules for power plants hastens climate change but helps the data center buildout. more…
Business Insider
China built buffers that let it buy less oil when prices soar. With crude back above $100, its buying decisions increasingly matter to the world. more…
Gizmodo.com
The average domestic flight now costs $390, up from $290 a year ago. more…
The Atlantic
The White House made a bunch of parody video games. We have more suggestions. more…
Why AI doom rhetoric from Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech leaders functions as hype, regulatory strategy, and a distraction from present harms. more…
Typesafe.ai
TypeSafe AI is a new AI lab operating in stealth more…
Scientific American
The reversal of a Biden-era cap on emissions from the plants could have devastating effects in efforts to stop climate change more…
Scientific American
What happens when machines surpass the most brilliant human minds? Mathematicians are finding out more…
BBC News
The Environment Protection Agency says the move will save the country billions of dollars and reduce energy prices. more…
Jezebel
Even in the midst of lying about the Iran War, Trump manages to admit that the war is impossible for his administration to end. more…
Al Jazeera English
The US Environmental Protection Agency ends a rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas power plants. more…
Al Jazeera English
The ruling says the Energy Department exceeded its authority by extending the plant’s operation. more…
Al Jazeera English
The Trump administration says it could save power plants more than $300bn and 'unleash' American energy. more…
China built buffers that let it buy less oil when prices soar. With crude back above $100, its buying decisions increasingly matter to the world. more…
Salon
The country has sacrificed the health of 9/11 first responders, just like it did with Vietnam War veterans more…
The New Republic
We live in a time, journalist Amy Westervelt laments in her new book, Brought To You By, when “millions of people have been convinced that it is patriotic to be antidemocracy [and] that doctors are not to be trusted but podcasters are.” In theory, democracy c… more…
Grist
With the repeal of a rule that limited carbon emissions from power plants, the president is further delaying the phaseout of coal. more…
Grist
It's one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s “energy emergency” agenda. more…
Large methane emissions are easy to detect and often fairly easy to contain, yet few of the big sinning countries are taking action. more…
Nakedcapitalism.com
Our strategic daily links: perfect form, predicting suicide, hotteset August, flying Chinese trucks, EU industry, Mideast horrors, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretc… more…
Nakedcapitalism.com
Our testy links: Houthi lighting strike takes key island + most of Bab el Mandeb coast, Saudis close key pipeline, US diesel over $6 and Brent nears $110, El Nino snarls Asia ports, UK bond yields spike, 9/11, Isreal destruction in Lebanon and Syria, McClatch… more…
Part the First: Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt. This summer has been one of the hottest since temperature records have been kept. Most of the hottest years ever recorded have been in the last twenty years. The mechanism that caused anthropogenic global… more…
Kevin Warsh only partly sees that Fed tools and policy concepts may not work given AI, shifting prices, and the fading power of interest rates more…
Project Syndicate
The demand for what digital publishers offer is real and robust, but the old methods of managing it will no longer work when cyberspace is inundated with bots designed to extract value wherever it can be found. Building an alternative will fall to the remaini… more…
TechRadar
While concern grows over AI and its potential to harm humanity, the White House claims the US has all the criminal and regulatory power it needs over the technology, and warns AI ' conspiracy theorists' to "beware". more…
CBC News
Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Niño, according to the European climate service Copernicus. more…
Project Syndicate
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz showed how quickly a regional conflict can throw global energy markets into chaos. By pushing governments toward coal and biofuels, the war could accelerate deforestation and undermine climate negotiations, with environment… more…
Stylemepretty.com
Flora Farms was made for a wedding like this one. Nicole and Zach wanted a day that felt polished, inviting, and fun, so Little Black Book Member Amy Abbott Events built the design around what the gardens in San José del Cabo already offered, layering floral … more…
MIT Technology Review
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the under-35s shaping the future of biotech Every year, MIT Technology Review puts together our 35 Innovators Under … more…
Science (34 questions) Polity⚖️ (15 questions) PIN-GK️ (3 questions) Intl. Relations (1 questions) History/Culture (20 questions) Geography (7 questions) Environment (13 questions) Economy & Govt Schemes (18 questions) Defense (4 questions) Comp… more…
Barchart.com
Could this penny stock soar after the $300 million Google solar deal? more…
Energymonitor.ai
The partnership is set to boost local jobs and expand US energy storage manufacturing at the St. Marys facility. more…
Moby.co
Moby summary of Imperial Petroleum Inc.'s Q2 2026 earnings call more…
Yahoo Entertainment
Houthi strikes threaten Saudi oil exports as Brent hits $105 and Middle Eastern crude soars to $120. more…
Barchart.com
As Xcel Energy has outpaced the utility sector over the past year, Wall Street analysts remain bullish about the stock’s prospects. more…
Yahoo Entertainment
Producers are achieving more with less capital, with natural gas production and reserves rising even as industry capex fell 49%, reflecting greater drilling... more…
24/7 Wall St.
Duke Energy has raised its dividend every year for two decades, mailed checks like clockwork, and still managed to leave patient investors wondering if borin... more…
24/7 Wall St.
Bitcoin just posted behavior that gold bugs have claimed for years was impossible, and the bond market may be the reason why. Whether that makes BTC a true s... more…
24/7 Wall St.
Data centers are doubling their power demands almost overnight, and regulated utilities that lock in long-term supply contracts stand to collect that revenue... more…
Fox Sports
In the words of Nick Wright, the “prince who was promised” is at the top of Mahomes Mountain. However, Patrick Mahomes isn't that prince. more…
PBS
Source: PBS News Hour The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to repeal rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action that Administrator Lee Zeldin has said would remove bill… more…
BBC News
The actor urged MPs to back a national testing programme to make sure historic toxic dump sites were safe. more…
NBC News
What hitting the brakes on AI could mean for the U.S. economy. more…
Wordpress.com
[This is a guest post by Bryna Kra. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] For generations, mathematicians have treated the production of theorems as a clear measure of success. The stronger the theorem, … more…
Inside Higher Ed
Universities Should Just Say No to Divestment Elizabeth Redden Fri, 09/11/2026 - 03:00 AM It’s ineffective and difficult to reconcile with fiduciary duty. Byline(s) Max M. Schanzenbach Robert H. Sitkoff Universities Should Just Say No to D… more…
Nachdenkseiten.de
In der vergangenen Woche berichteten wir bereits über die neuesten Enthüllungen in Israel zum 7. Oktober 2023 und die Frage, was Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu, die israelische Regierung und der Sicherheitsapparat im Vorfeld über einen bevorstehenden gr… more…
CleanTechnica
CUMBERLAND CITY, Tennessee — This week, the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of Appalachian Voices and the Sierra Club, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority over the utility’s failure to take federally required steps to protect Middle Tennessee com… more…
CleanTechnica
The J.H. Campbell generating station first went into service in 1962. It is located in West Olive, Michigan in the western part of the state, just a few miles from the shores of Lake Donald Lake Michigan. At its peak, it supplied 1,420 MW of coal fired electr… more…
CleanTechnica
Two years ago, we brought our readers news about the Joule Hive thermal battery from Electrified Thermal Solutions. ETS is an MIT spin-off that began researching the benefits of electrified firebrick more than 12 years ago. Here’s why that is important. About… more…
Juancole.com
we then came up with a path to planetary destruction via fossil fuels to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere more…
New York Magazine
The AI giant is expected to list on the NASDAQ as early as next month, while OpenAI delays its plans to go public. more…
Reason
Backup groomsmen, weak sauce, and interment camps. more…
RT
August matched the hottest month ever recorded as Western Europe suffered record heat, drought, and crop losses according to Copernicus Read Full Article at RT.com more…
RT
Russia is vital to global energy supply chains and energy security, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev has told TASS Read Full Article at RT.com more…
Americanthinker.com
Photo Credit: ArcelormittalBy Thomas KolbeGreen steel has no future in Germany, regardless of how much funding may continue to flow through the channels of the green subsidy machine. more…
Bleeding Cool News
Welcome back to another Saturday night with Svengoolie (aka Rich Koz) and the House of Svengoolie (Sarah Palmer's gorgeous ghoul Gwengoolie, Scott Gryder's devilishly ingratiating IMP (Ignatius Malvolio Prankerstein), and Bill Leff's the 800-year-old vampire … more…
Thurrott.com
Leo, Richard, and Paul celebrate the 1000th episode of the podcast and discuss Windows 11, IFA, AI and dev, XBOX and gaming and more. The post Windows Weekly 1000: Ensheepified appeared first on Thurrott.com. more…
Thenation.com
Paul Rogat Loeb In troubled times, history offers a lesson: Seemingly impossible change can begin with ordinary people who refuse to give up. The post The Impossible Will Take a Little While: The Power of Persistence appeared first on The Nation. more…
The state government has introduced legislation to repeal a requirement for a coal mine to house its workforce in a nearby town. more…
Hundreds of workers in Whyalla will lose their jobs as a result of a decision to permanently shut down the blast furnace at the South Australian town's steelworks. It is expected the decision will mean 500 workers will be out of a job, as well as more than 10… more…
Triple murderer Darryl Valroy Young, 63, lodges an appeal against his conviction and sentence for killing his neighbours at the gate of his cattle station in 2022. more…
As commodity prices inflate like a free-floating helium balloon accidentally released from the hand of a hapless child, most things — not just dodgem rides and Dagwood dogs — tend to hit the hip pocket with a little extra force. more…
Australian Greens founding figure Bob Brown has backed the three senators who took the rare step of crossing the floor to vote against the party on plans to develop the Great Koala Park in NSW. more…
The blast furnace closure has not come as a surprise to locals — workers have been pushing against the odds to get the aging plant back online since April. Now, they're considering what the future holds. more…
While the blast furnace has gone cold, the heat is turning up on the South Australian government's long-term vision to fix the Whyalla steelworks and the money being poured in to "save" it. more…
A resumption of steelmaking in Whyalla could be several years away, following the announcement that hundreds of jobs will go because of the demise of the blast furnace. more…
A wearable mask that tracks the methane output of individual cattle in real time promises to help quantify the livestock sector's contribution to national emissions. more…
RT
Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal says 40 projects across areas such as advanced manufacturing, railways, and emerging technology are now live as India and Russia pursue a $50 billion investment target more…
RT
Russia President Vladimir Putin and Indian PM Narendra Modi are expected to discuss the key pillars of the bilateral relationship during their meeting in New Delhi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit more…
Thenation.com
Mark Hertsgaard, Covering Climate Now Amy Westervelt’s new book, Brought To You By, exposes the deep history of today’s “information pollution.” The post Big Oil’s Origin Story appeared first on The Nation. more…
NPR
They own car dealerships, law firms, dental practices, and restaurant chains. Collectively, these overlooked business owners hold far more wealth than the Forbes 400 — and wield considerable political power. more…
Dailymail.com
A warning has been issued to Aussie workers. more…
Dailymail.com
Regarded as one of the country's most iconic stations, King's Cross and its neighbour, St Pancras International, have become notorious hotspots for crime. more…
Ssir.org
Appalachia's trust-based recovery from climate disaster offers a vision of the future and a road map to follow, for anywhere in the world where underdeveloped infrastructure is exposed to climate volatility. more…
Daily Signal
UNIONTOWN, Pennsylvania—Scott Dunn did not get a call from Washington. Instead, he received calls from his constituents. The chairman of the Fayette County Board of Commissioners had watched the March announcement like everyone else: a $17 billion natural gas… more…
Daily Signal
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it is moving to repeal a greenhouse gas regulation the EPA imposed under President Joe Biden, saying federal law does not allow the agency to regulate power plant emissions in order to fight climate ch… more…
NPR
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Environmental groups say this will impact the climate and public health. more…
NPR
The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August. Scientists said the heat surge is mostly due to human-caused climate change. more…
PBS
The EPA announced it is repealing rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants. The move eliminates requirements that would have forced some power plants to sharply reduce their emissions, including through technologies such as… more…
Naturalnews.com
Official energy data indicates a growing divergence in electricity generation strategies between China and the United States. In China, coal accounts for 55% of electricity production, with average household rates reported at 8 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour. [… more…
Naturalnews.com
Amazon is building a natural gas plant in Pecos County, Texas that could become the nation’s largest single source of carbon emissions. The facility will use 35 turbines to generate more than 7 gigawatts, surpassing the Grand Coulee Dam’s output. Meta has wal… more…
Naturalnews.com
GrafTech International and Antora Energy are developing carbon-based thermal batteries for industrial facilities in the United States, according to company statements. The systems are designed to store electricity as heat in solid carbon blocks and to deliver… more…
Naturalnews.com
Maryland electricity bills have jumped 50.9% over five years, reaching 24% above the national average. Governor Wes Moore blames utility profiteering and data center demand, while critics point to state decarbonization mandates. Climate Solutions Now Act and … more…
Naturalnews.com
Shampoo and lipstick are everyday products, used repeatedly and often for years. Shampoo is rinsed away, while lipstick is applied directly to the lips and can be unintentionally swallowed. That difference makes exposure particularly important when evaluating… more…
Naturalnews.com
Cosmetics are designed to make skin, hair and nails look, smell and feel better. Yet the chemistry behind those effects can be considerably less appealing. Preservatives, solvents, fragrances, pigments, plasticizers and other functional ingredients can expose… more…
Naturalnews.com
A new scientific hypothesis proposes that explosive methane gas releases from the seabed could explain many historical disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. The theory suggests trapped methane gas could erupt, drastically lowering water density to sink ship… more…
Vintag.es
This chart, titled “Plan of Work for a Small Servantless House (3 or 4 in family),” comes from Mrs. Beeton’s Everyday Cookery (specifically... more…
The American Prospect
Candidates of every political persuasion are knocking themselves out trying to appease angry citizens wanting their lives and livelihoods put before Big Tech. The post Data Center of Attention appeared first on The American Prospect. more…
Raw Story
A federal appeals court on Friday shot down the Trump administration's claim of sweeping emergency authority to keep a doomed Michigan coal plant running, dealing the first legal defeat to the president's push to throw U.S. coal a lifeline.In a unanimous ruli… more…
Space Daily
Burning Mountain is not a volcano but a buried coal fire, reconstructed from kilometres of heat-altered ground and still moving south beneath a New South Wales reserve. The post Beneath Mount Wingen in New South Wales, a coal seam has smouldered for an estima… more…
Space Daily
Concrete without Portland cement could cut construction's carbon footprint—and a sprawling Australian airport just proved it works at full commercial scale. The post In 2014, crews used about 40,000 cubic metres of concrete made with a slag-and-fly-ash geopol… more…