r/environment2 • • Mar 07 '26 Bravo Mindblown

Good Thing We Canceled All Those Solar/Wind Projects

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10.9k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Aug 07 '26

Juliana Leon Died in a Climate-Linked Heat Wave. Her Daughter Is Suing Big Oil. | This case is reportedly the first to hold Big Oil accountable for an individual's death in a climate-related disaster.

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2.5k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Apr 22 '26 Popcorn Mindblown

“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis | Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its 2 data centerspolluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions.

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2.4k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 22 '26 Bravo

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction

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2.0k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • 4d ago

AOC Says GOP Energy Bill May as Well Have Been Written Entirely by Big Oil

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1.4k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 06 '25

Daughter of the owner of an oil company whose catastrophic explosion has devastated the area around the town of Roseland, Louisiana tells its residents to “use your resources and simply clean it up.”

1.3k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Feb 13 '26 Mindblown

Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’ | Barack Obama says move will leave Americans ‘less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change’

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1.2k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Jul 22 '26 Regret

Republicans Are Trying to Give Big Oil Immunity for Causing Climate Chaos | A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Jun 10 '26

Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg | The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook, involves the decommissioning of a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect global climate data.

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democracynow.org
935 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 24 '26

150,000 Tons of Radioactive Waste Were Dumped in The Atlantic. Decades Later, It's Visibly Oozing.

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sciencealert.com
872 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 25 '25

Trump Wants to Open Up 45 Million Acres of Roadless Wilderness to Logging | A push to repeal the Roadless Rule that protects the few ecosystems that remain truly wild faces mass public opposition.

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856 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Aug 05 '26

Trump Administration Moves to Block Public From Enforcing Environmental Protection Laws | In a legal filing, the Trump administration is saying citizens should not be allowed to enforce environmental laws.

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counterpunch.org
833 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • May 10 '26

It’s the Climate Stupid | If you want to understand why we are seeing larger wildfires, severe drought, and higher temperatures, I suggest the mantra should be “it’s the climate, stupid.”

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811 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Jul 16 '26

Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future | The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, scientists warn.

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797 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 04 '26

Man single-handedly cleans the entire Ajnar River in Madhya Pradesh, India

787 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Aug 15 '26

Something Must Be Done

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778 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Sep 01 '25

Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery | Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn salmon populations will go extinct without remediation efforts.

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truthout.org
677 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Aug 28 '26

West Point Professor Fired for Refusing to Lie About Climate Change | Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing over his removal from the military academy.

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newrepublic.com
674 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Feb 15 '26

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say | "Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition."

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futurism.com
651 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • May 11 '26

Scientists stunned as volcano cloud destroys methane in the atmosphere | After a 2022 eruption scientists detected enormous amounts of formaldehyde in the atmosphere — a telltale sign that methane, one of the planet’s most powerful greenhouse gases, was being destroyed.

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649 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Apr 20 '26

Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake | “The intent here is obvious. It’s to hollow out this agency and hand it to the resource extraction industry and prepare it for, potentially, the eventual transfer of our public lands to states.”

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democracynow.org
646 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • 4d ago

Court rejects Donald Trump’s pause on wind approvals

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reddit.com
641 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • Oct 02 '25

China Is Leaving America in the Dust on Clean Energy | The White House is punting on the future of energy. Xi Jinping is happy to take the lead

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rollingstone.com
625 Upvotes

r/environment2 • • 18d ago

‘A Crime of Extreme Inequality’: Richest 0.1% Generate More Carbon Pollution Than Half of Humanity | “The ultra-rich are setting the planet on fire and then charging the rest of us for the extinguishers.”

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commondreams.org
609 Upvotes