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Dominion Energy has asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to approve its RGGI rate request next month, while an environmental group continued to advocate for more long-term analysis of carbon market compliance options despite the utility’s pushback. 

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices set a new all-time high this week before retracing slightly on lower activity, while RGGI permits inched up on thin trading volumes despite few near-term drivers.

Three suburbs in Victoria have been warned against drinking tap water — even if they boil it first. Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Rabobank intends to launch its marketplace for carbon credits generated from sustainable agricultural practices early next year, the CEO of its newly-launched Rabo Carbon Bank told Carbon Pulse.

European carbon prices dipped on Thursday on another weak auction result and as supply concerns continued to weigh.

Ministers from 40 nations will aim to advance international emissions trade talks on the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 next month, after scant progress by officials during a three-week virtual UN meeting.

Fossil fuel companies TC Energy and Pembina Pipeline Corporation announced their plans to implement a CO2 transportation and sequestration system across Alberta on Thursday, with the goal of storing 10% of the province’s yearly industrial emissions.

The coelacanth was thought to live for about 20 years, but a new study suggests it's nearer 100.

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The voluntary carbon market is supposed to be saving the world. Instead many carbon credit retailers are lining their pockets, warns market veteran and Redshaw Advisors founder Louis Redshaw.

Egypt is poised to host next year’s UN climate summit after receiving endorsement from the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) this week, according to government officials and media reports.

Countries urged to take urgent action on managing water and land and tackling the climate emergency

Drought is a hidden global crisis that risks becoming “the next pandemic” if countries do not take urgent action on water and land management and tackling the climate emergency, the UN has said.

At least 1.5 billion people have been directly affected by drought this century, and the economic cost over roughly that time has been estimated at $124bn (£89bn). The true cost is likely to be many times higher because such estimates do not include much of the impact in developing countries, according to a report published on Thursday.

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Government accused of disregarding coroner’s words about death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, aged 9

The government has refused to commit to an immediate lowering of legal levels of air pollution as a result of the death of a nine-year-old child from toxic air.

Ella Kissi-Debrah was the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of their death in a historic ruling by a coroner earlier this year.

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European NGOs are calling for the EU to phase out gas by 2035, as the 27-nation bloc is finalising major pieces of legislation that will set energy and climate policy for the decades ahead.

The Australian Government is seeking comments on the draft national recovery plan by 24 September 2021.

Colony of small-flowered tongue orchid plants discovered in rooftop garden of investment bank Nomura

A rare species of orchid believed to have been extinct in the UK has been discovered on the roof of an office building in the City of London.

Serapis parviflora, also known as small-flowered tongue orchid, was found growing in the 11th-floor rooftop garden of the Japanese investment bank Nomura. It is usually found in the Mediterranean basin and the Atlantic coast of France, Spain and Portugal.

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Canadian company General Fusion is set to build a $400m fusion demonstrator near Oxford.

Alauda Airspeeder Mk3, a four-metre-long multicopter, makes unmanned test flights but team hopes to shift to pilots

An electric flying race car has taken flight for the first time in Australia, ahead of a proposed series of remotely piloted races later in the year.

The Alauda Airspeeder Mk3, a four-metre-long multicopter, has taken its first unmanned test flights in the South Australian desert, with approval from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

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South Korean carbon permits slumped 9.7% in Thursday trade to hit their lowest levels since Feb. 2016, as buyers are faced with a market flush with supply.