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French nuclear giant has scrapped its plans for small modular reactors, and decided to start over after customers raised concerns about costs.

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Organisations like Rewiring Australia have been calling initiatives like this – the local level needs the same focus, planning, and funding as large-scale renewable energy zones.

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Details released for the first federal big battery tender in Western Australia, now at the centre of the country's battery storage boom.

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Economic growth allows the few to grow ever-wealthier. Ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking

Economic growth will bring prosperity to all. This is the mantra that guides the decision-making of the vast majority of politicians, economists and even human rights bodies.

Yet the reality – as detailed in a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council this month – shows that while poverty eradication has historically been promised through the “trickling down” or “redistribution” of wealth, economic growth largely “gushes up” to a privileged few.

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Coalition’s pledge to build seven nuclear reactors poses serious questions about whether Australia can meet its international climate obligations.

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Another gigawatt scale wind project, and a very big battery, proposed along the route of the controversial VNI West transmissions upgrade.

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The stockpile of privately held NZUs has shrunk by some 25.5 million units, according to government figures published Tuesday, thanks to the May 31 surrender deadline for emitters.

Stanwell partners with Redflow to trial large-scale zinc bromine flow technology and lay foundations for a battery manufacturing plant in Queensland.

The post Stanwell to test and make Redflow long duration flow batteries as it prepares for life after coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Just two months after the Italian government banned solar on agricultural soil, Pope Francis has ordered construction of a PV plant on Vatican-owned farmland.

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Dutton’s policy latches on to genuine concerns about power prices and disruption evident in the latest Guardian Essential report, but what are its real motivations?

In 1959 the US government hatched a covert scheme to replace every single bird with a replicant surveillance drone to spy on its own citizens. This is only the second silliest theory flying around the internet right now.

Peter Dutton’s make-believe nuclear plan bears some of the hallmarks of Peter McIndoe’s actual piss-take, “Birds Aren’t Real”, which became so real he wound up doing interviews with Fox News and running large-scale community rallies where only some of the participants were chanting his nonsense slogan ironically.

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The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Monday released draft language of the cap-and-trade linkage rule to align the state’s carbon programme with the broader California-Quebec market.

A prominent New Zealand legal group has urged the coalition government to rethink its unwinding of transport emissions reduction policies, saying it was ignoring key aspects of the first Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) and the Climate Change Response Act. 

Sweltering conditions and power shutoffs may overlap with errant fireworks or badly tended campfires

A brutal and long-lasting heatwave is threatening to wreak havoc across California this week, as sweltering conditions, power shutoffs and a severe uptick in wildfire risks coincide with 4th of July celebrations.

The dangerous weather event is expected to stretch for days with little reprieve. Starting Wednesday, parts of the state will be subject to “extreme” levels of heat risk – reaching the highest level on the National Weather Service’s index – that will last until Sunday or longer. In some areas, life-threatening triple-digit temperatures could linger for longer than a week.

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The author of a California Senate bill intended to provide greater oversight on claims made from the sale of carbon credits has asked an Assembly committee to remove the bill from its agenda, and the proposal will not advance for the remainder of the legislative year, her office told Carbon Pulse on Monday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) settlement prices hit all-time highs yet again last week amid a persistent bullish outlook for the Third Program Review, despite the ongoing silence from the programme administrator regarding updates to the scheme, before retreating late in the week.

Carbon Pulse rounds up June’s developments in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) carbon markets, seeing two countries score high-priced Article 6 deals with a Swiss agency and several others make minor ETS announcements, though direct taxes continue as the region’s carbon pricing mainstay.

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Exclusive: shadow energy security secretary vows to fill ‘vacuum’ left by Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero

Labour will promise to take the lead on global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, filling a “vacuum of leadership” on the world stage and proving Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero has been a “historic mistake”, Ed Miliband has said.

The shadow energy security and net zero secretary said the UK needed to change course and was “off track”.

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The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has published final regulations set to take effect in July for the state's forthcoming voluntary offsets programme.

Carbon credit retirements towards Colombia's national CO2 tax remained weak in Q1, per figures presented at a climate summit in Cartagena last week, as domestic supply and demand struggled after media scandals and a volume cap was introduced in late 2022.