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Scientists Just Used Some of Earth’s Worst Chemicals to Produce Battery-Grade Lithium (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-11 | get Lithium-ion battery → | tags: desired, desired resource, environmental

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Reheating Leftovers 101: Experts Explain How to Keep Microplastics Out of Your Meal (cnet.com)

2026-03-04 | by See Full Bio | get Microplastic → | tags: microwave-safe, public health, university of nevada

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Trump’s rollback of this key EPA finding will hit poor and minority Americans the hardest (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-20 | get EPA finding → | tags: cancer, climate, communities

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Lawsuit: EPA revoking greenhouse gas finding risks “thousands of avoidable deaths” (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-18 | tags: climate, emissions, environmental

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A Year After Starship’s Debris Rained Over the Caribbean, SpaceX Returns to the Bahamas (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-18 | get Starlink → | tags: ecosystem, ecosystem placed, environmentalists

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Elon Musk's xAI faces threat of NAACP lawsuit over air pollution from Mississippi data center (cnbc.com)

2026-02-13 | by Lora Kolodny | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: environmental, memphis, musk

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EPA Reverses Long-Standing Climate Change Finding, Stripping Its Own Ability To Regulate Emissions (slashdot.org)

2026-02-13 | by Posted | get Carbon Capture → | tags: basis, determination, endangerment

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My professor said ‘Black people are not interested in the environment’. I set out to prove him wrong (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-11 | by Gewin | get Environmentalism → | tags: black, colour, environmental

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What is the ‘endangerment finding’? And why Trump killing it will have huge effects on the U.S. auto industry (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-10 | tags: allows, climate, climate pollution

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New York lawmakers introduce bill that aims to halt data center development for three years (engadget.com)

2026-02-07 | get Data Center → | tags: centers, data centers, environmental

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Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds (arstechnica.com)

2026-02-07 | get EPA's enforcement → | tags: administration, enforcement, environmental

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How these MAHA activists are forming an unlikely alliance with Lee Zeldin’s EPA (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-03 | get Environmental Protection Agency → | tags: activists, building, environmental

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Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-03 | by Brian Maffly | get Haircare → | tags: environmental, hair, hair samples

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Trump energy department loosens rules on nuclear safety (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-28 | by Tim De Chant | get Nuclear reactor → | tags: administration, built, doe property

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Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-26 | get Smartwater → | tags: bid control, control, control oregon

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Trump Wrecked Climate Policy in a Year. Can We Ever Go Back? (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-23 | get Renewable Energy Storage → | tags: attacks, attacks bedrock, bedrock

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Have environmental microplastics levels been overestimated? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-22 | by Castelvecchi | get Microplastic → | tags: atmosphere, emissions, environmental

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Microplastic levels in the air have been overestimated, but are still a big concern (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-22 | by Castelvecchi | get Microplastics → | tags: atmosphere, emissions, environmental

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The Gold Plating of American Water (slashdot.org)

2026-01-21 | by Posted | get Water Purification System → | tags: billion, city, environmental

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Opinion | They’re Coming for Our Data Centers (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-01-13 | get Cloud → | tags: energy, energy supply, environmentalists

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How to reduce the environmental impact of wearable health-care devices (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-31 | by Babbitt | get Smartwatch → | tags: babbitt, care, environmental

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SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-24 | get Solar Power → | tags: environmental, federal, major

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You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong (wired.com)

2025-12-12 | by Molly Taft | get Brain → | tags: environmental, masley, thread

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Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30 (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-09 | get Ecozone → | tags: brazil, climate, deregulation

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Beyond growth — why we need to agree on an alternative to GDP now (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-18 | by Costanza | get Alternative → | tags: environmental, health, inclusive

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Resource use matters, but material footprints are a poor way to measure it (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Hannah Ritchie | get iPhone → | tags: environmental, food, footprint

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US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Diana Digangi | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: environmental, project, projects

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Tesla asks EPA not to roll back emissions rules as Trump calls climate change a ‘con job’ (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Sean O'Kane | get Tesla accessories → | tags: company, emissions, environmental

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SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Aria Alamalhodaei | get Roku Streaming Stick → | tags: disrupt, environmental, launch

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins (techcrunch.com)

2025-10-31 | by Aria Alamalhodaei | get Amazon Echo Dot → | tags: disrupt, environmental, new