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Environment groups have welcomed the Coalition’s waste measures but say the use of recycled content must be made compulsory

It slipped by reasonably quietly amid the Covid-19 chaos, but earlier this month the Coalition government received something it has found hard to come by in its nearly seven years in power – praise on an environmental issue.

The praise was qualified, and could yet be retracted. It followed the environment minister, Sussan Ley, announcing the government would spend $190m on new recycling infrastructure, saying it would help divert 10,000 tonnes of plastic, paper and glass waste from landfill.

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Activists want London mayor Sadiq Khan to cancel Silvertown road tunnel project

Three Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a rig in the middle of the Thames to protest against a planned road tunnel underneath the river in south-east London.

The keys to the locks around the protesters’ necks have been delivered to the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, with a note asking him to come and talk to them. However, the mayor’s office issued a statement ignoring the request and confirming plans to build the Silvertown tunnel are continuing.

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Activists want London mayor Sadiq Kahn to cancel Silvertown road tunnel project

Three Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a rig in the middle of the Thames to protest against a planned road tunnel underneath the river in south-east London.

The keys to the locks around the protesters’ necks have been delivered to the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, with a note asking him to come and talk to them. However, the mayor’s office issued a statement ignoring the request and confirming plans to build the Silvertown tunnel are continuing.

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The sister of Rosalind Franklin says she would be surprised to be a "feminist icon" 100 years on.

Enormous overhaul will have to defeat opposition from fossil-fuel lobbyists and residents unhappy with nearby turbines

Joe Biden’s $2tn plan to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions from the US electricity grid within 15 years has been applauded by climate campaigners, but the enormous overhaul will have to pick its way through a minefield of community as well as lobbyist opposition.

Related: New Yorkers vote in special contest to reimagine famous Brooklyn Bridge

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Chair of Natural England wants environmental impact considerations baked into planning system

Instead of blaming protected newts for thwarting the “build build build” agenda, politicians and developers must incorporate green thinking into the design of new infrastructure, according to the chair of the government’s conservation watchdog.

Natural England’s Tony Juniper called on the government and planners to change their thinking to ensure environmental considerations were designed into new housing estates, as well as road and rail projects, at the beginning, rather than being a hasty “add-on” or “mitigation” at the end.

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Data comes from rings on birds, with more than a million fitted during 2019

Flying around the world may have become an unappealing prospect or a distant dream for most people during the coronavirus crisis.

If you are a Manx shearwater, however, there is no limit to your long-distance travel, and one of these small seabirds from the Hebridean isle of Rùm was last year clocked journeying more than 7,564 miles from its Scottish breeding colony to the seaside resort of Las Grutas in Argentina.

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Community groups will be able to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar systems in a bid to cut energy costs, as part of an ARENA backed pilot.

The post Community groups to trade solar power in ARENA funded trial appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla says next US Gigafactory will be in Austin, Texas, where work has already begun on an "ecological paradise" that will produce the Cybertruck and Semi.

The post Giga Texas! Austin Gigafactory to build Tesla’s new Cybertruck and Tesla Semi appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A 2.5MW solar system installed across 25 rooftops at La Trobe University’s Bundoora campus in Melbourne’s north has been completed.

The post Victoria’s La Trobe University switches on massive 2.5MW solar array appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Speculators reduced their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings by their largest amount since May, while compliance entities kept their positions mostly flat week-on-week despite rising prices, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

EU carbon prices dropped on Friday following a weaker auction result and amid falling equity markets to end the week down 5.2%.

California regulator ARB’s next rulemaking process for the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) will not occur until autumn at the earliest as the agency deals with furloughs, regulatory sources told Carbon Pulse.

Russia is “extremely concerned” about the EU's plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to prevent carbon leakage, the country's economic development minister said on Thursday.

Congress shed its partisan colors to pass a bill that will invest billions in national parks – but it will not cover up the environmental damage Trump has done

Among mountain trails and city parks in our home states of Colorado and Washington, we have gratefully found refuge in nature amid this global pandemic. Never has fresh air tasted so good as now, when it provides escape from a virus that is at its deadliest indoors.

That may be one reason why Congress shed its partisan colors to pass a bill that will invest nearly a billion dollars a year to create new local, state and national parks and natural areas where families can safely get outside together.

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The consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism are revealed by the findings.

Poland's environment ministry is drafting a law to address the wild volatility in EU carbon prices it claims is being driven by speculators, with the department's minister calling for the government to reconsider the country's participation in the EU ETS and to mull introducing its own domestic market.

Next week’s planned shipment of 2,000 bulls could contravene EU welfare regulations, campaigners say

Animal welfare groups have warned that an upcoming shipment of young bulls from Ireland to Libya could contravene live export laws.

The shipment, which is expected to consist of 2,000 bulls, would be the fourth this year from Ireland. It is set to leave on Wednesday next week from the port of Cork in south-west Ireland. Previous shipments of livestock have arrived in the Libyan port of Misrata.

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Closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week.