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Residents living near a NSW coalmine are challenging an environmental watchdog's decision to renew its licence without limiting methane and particle pollution.

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A group of European researchers has calculated the total compensation planned for workers affected by the transition away from coal and found that it is either consistent with or lower than existing carbon prices within areas like the European Union. However, the research only calculated those countries with existing coal phase-out plans that have included […]

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Battery developers love Texas' freewheeling ERCOT system, and all the new energy storage is helping to bolster the grid. But will the good times last?

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Shareholders of Kasigau Ranching Company have reportedly clashed with the board of directors over how "millions of shillings" from voluntary carbon credit sales were spent, with the firm in the middle of a financial and management crisis, according to local media.

EU countries are directing between €34 billion and €48 bln of European subsidies annually into activities that harm biodiversity, with the majority of them allocated to agriculture, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The public defender of forest-rich Brazilian state Para is targeting fines totalling R$20 million ($3.9 mln) for alleged illegal land-grabbing practices related to multiple REDD+ projects, according to local media reports.

RGGI allowance (RGA) prices largely plateaued over the past week on lower volumes, with many market participants expecting the futures to hover around their current range in the continued absence of programme review updates, despite a general sense of bullishness.

A Texas-headquartered pipeline and terminaling energy company signed a revised letter of intent (LOI) with a carbon management firm to jointly develop a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Louisiana, committing up to 2 million tonnes of CO2 captured annually from its operations.

The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) will begin a process to review its jurisdictional carbon standard in August, the US-headquartered organisation announced Monday.

Allowing our spent lithium batteries to be exported free of charge could mean forfeiting a potential $3 billion onshore reprocessing industry. Yasir Arafat, Senior Research Associate, Edith Cowan University Daryoush Habibi, Professor and Head, Centre for Green and Smart Energy Systems, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

State’s department of fish and wildlife says the brown pelicans are showing signs of malnutrition, but that the cause is still unclear

Hundreds of starving and stranded brown pelicans have turned up along the California coast in recent weeks in what wildlife advocates have described as a “crisis”.

In Newport Beach in southern California, lifeguards came upon two dozen sick pelicans on a pier last week. The Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, the non-profit caring for the animals, said they had treated more than 100 other birds who were anemic, dehydrated and extremely underweight.

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Credit retirements dried up and trading was thin in spot markets amid a lackluster week in the voluntary carbon market, partly because of public holidays in Europe.

Kenya has become one of the most attractive countries in the world for carbon market investment, experts have said, drawing in a wide diversity of emissions reductions projects, seeing a high volume of retired voluntary credits, and emerging as a powerhouse in both tech- and nature-based carbon removals due to its geological storage potential and natural sinks.

The EU saw record investments in clean technologies in the first few months of 2024, part of an economic wave that shows signs for optimism in the 27-nation bloc, data showed on Monday.

The UK will tax sales of some voluntary carbon credits (VCCs) at 0% and others at 20% by bringing them under the umbrella of the country’s ‘value-added tax’ (VAT) on goods and services, though others will remain entirely outside the scope of the scheme.

Over 140 civil society organisations have penned an open letter sounding the alarm over the recent rollback of environmental measures in the EU ahead of the European Parliament's elections scheduled for next month.

The first scheme allowing UK homeowners to more easily afford energy efficiency retrofits partially aided by the sale of voluntary carbon credits will be piloted among at least 1,000 homes, with potential to engage a huge number of citizens via partnerships with their mortgage providers.

The ancient fish were successfully hatched by scientists in Tasmania using two adults and 50 eggs. The Maugean skate is thought to be found only in the vast harbour on the state’s west coast. Numbers have fallen sharply due to the impact of salmon farms, hydro power stations altering upstream river flows, gillnet fishing and rising harbour temperatures due to the climate crisis, studies have found

• Politics and science: Tasmanian leaders back salmon farms ‘at all costs’ while researchers work to save endangered Maugean skate

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The state-owned UK Infrastructure Bank and Scottish National Investment Bank are putting £100 million into the redevelopment of a Scottish port to handle offshore wind turbines, helping to scale up wind capacity in the North Sea, they announced on Monday.

EU countries on Monday signed off on a law aiming to cut the CO2 emissions of new heavy-duty vehicles by 90% as of 2040, concluding a legislative journey that began in February last year.