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Regulator proposes compromise with wind and solar farms on mechanism to avoid sudden withdrawals of capacity during negative pricing events.

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The next US Congress could take up a $52/tonne carbon tax plan to help state and local governments grapple with the significant economic crises brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, backers of the proposal told Carbon Pulse.

Researchers find that even exposure to levels below EU limits has an impact

Infants exposed to even low levels of air pollution experience reduced lung function as children and teenagers, researchers have found.

Their study found that exposure to air pollution in the first year of life reduced lung function development from the ages of six to 15, even at pollution levels below EU standards.

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New report finds pollution from Australia’s 22 remaining coal power plants is causing hundreds of premature deaths a year, thousands of chronic respiratory illnesses.

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Canada's Conservative Party on Monday elected Erin O’Toole as its new leader, with the Ontario MP and former cabinet minister pledging to axe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ‘backstop’ carbon tax framework but voicing support for industrial and provincial CO2 pricing.

The EU ETS registry system continues to experience technical issues following last week's three-day outage, the European Commission said late Monday, with problems specifically affecting Britain's EUA auctions and transactions involving Kyoto Protocol credits.

Good downpours in eastern Australia this year have been good for crops and some dams. But when it comes to drought, Australia is not out of the woods yet. Lynette Bettio, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Shannon Symons, Hydrologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs gapped up and jumped by nearly 8% on Monday, hitting a five-week high above €27 as traders said a bullish weekend Financial Times article and wider market optimism about prospects for effective COVID-19 treatments stoked carbon buyers.

Experts fear introduced parrots could spread disease and that feral populations could threaten native species

The Morrison government has proposed lifting a ban on the importation of exotic parrot species into Australia, with experts concerned it could lead to the introduction of diseases and feral pests and an increase in illegal wildlife trade.

It has been illegal to import live psittacine birds into Australia since 1995 when a ban was introduced due to concerns about disease.

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The EU can hit a 55% emission reduction target below 1990 levels by 2030, but the goal will require significant climate policy changes, including the ETS’ own architecture, according to a report released on Monday.

Industry competitiveness goes beyond carbon leakage tests applied to EU and California carbon markets, according to a UK-commissioned study published on Monday, findings that could drastically alter carbon pricing safeguards for British emitters.

Experts say no conclusions on immunity can be drawn from one patient - and larger studies are needed.

The Department of Environmental Quality’s, Air Division, Office of Air Data Analysis, is seeking a qualified applicant to serve as the principal staff coordinator for the Virginia carbon trading rule program for the power sector.

Industrial runoff and lax standards have tainted water across the US. Senators and doctors are calling me, asking what to do

When I was a little girl, my father would sing songs to me all the time about water. Sometimes, we would be playing down at the creeks and he would make up little tunes: “See that lovely water, trickling down the stream, don’t take it for granted, someday it might not be seen.”

My dad worked for many years as an engineer for Texaco and later for the Department of Transportation. Before he died, he told me that in my lifetime water would become a commodity more valuable than oil or gold, because there would be so little of it. Sadly, I believe he was right.

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Technologies that remove CO2 from air could drive up food prices five-fold in parts of the world

It is thought sonar may scare animals into surfacing too quickly, causing narcosis

An unusual series of strandings and sightings of 29 rare beaked whales has taken place around the shores of northern Europe. Experts have suggested the strandings may be linked to a military sonar exercise.

The events, whose rarity indicates that they might be linked by a single cause, began two weeks ago with the sighting of two northern bottlenose whales in the North Sea. They are the same species of beaked whale as the Thames whale of 2006.

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The chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust says it is struggling to survive.

Storebrand says corporate lobbying to undermine climate solutions is ‘unacceptable’

A Nordic hedge fund worth more than $90bn (£68.6bn) has dumped its stocks in some of the world’s biggest oil companies and miners responsible for lobbying against climate action.

Storebrand, a Norwegian asset manager, divested from miner Rio Tinto as well as US oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron as part of a new climate policy targeting companies that use their political clout to block green policies.

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Volunteers at an archaeological dig find 425 coins, enough to buy a mansion when they were buried.

Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoods

Children growing up in greener urban areas have increased intelligence and lower levels of difficult behaviour, a study has found.

The analysis of more than 600 children aged 10-15 showed a 3% increase in the greenness of their neighbourhood raised their IQ score by an average of 2.6 points. The effect was seen in both richer and poorer areas.

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