Big Oil Pledges to Cut Methane Emissions
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Keystone XL Pipeline Construction to Start in 2019
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Trump Officials Roll Back Oil Train Safety Rule
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100-metre sinkhole opens up near disused mine shaft in Monaghan
September 25th, 2018
A football-pitch sized sinkhole opened up across a local GAA pitch in Co Monaghan on Monday morning.
The land subsidence event damaged two...
Councillor calls for supermarkets to bare burden of tackling plastic waste
September 25th, 2018
The onus on ending the use of non-recyclable plastics must be placed squarely at the door of producers and supermarkets “pushing” plastics...
Ireland remains ‘profoundly unequal’ 100-group strong march set to warn
September 25th, 2018
Despite our current economic prowess, Ireland remains a “profoundly unequal place”, the head of Social Justice Ireland has warned.
Speaking in advance of...
Retraction of Florides et al. (2013)
About a year ago I wrote about my dealings with a paper by Florides et al. in a four part article here at SkS...
NASA study untangles smoke, pollution effects on clouds
A new NASA-led study helps answer decades-old questions about the role of smoke and human-caused air pollution on clouds and rainfall. Looking specifically at...
John McDonnell offers an ambitious alternative economic policy
It’s a pity it’s so badly thought out
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