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The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against California’s cap-and-trade programme, claiming the market is unconstitutional because it links to Canadian province Quebec, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Sixteen states and European commission had lobbied against planned guidance

The European parliament has vetoed a move by member states and the European commission to weaken EU rules protecting bee colonies from toxic pesticides.

MEPs blocked revised legislation that was said to ignore the risk to bee larvae from long-term exposure to chemicals, known as chronic toxicity.

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EUAs slipped towards €25 early on Wednesday as the Brexit process appeared to be heading for yet another extension that keeps UK emitters' ETS participation in doubt.

South Korea’s cabinet has approved a climate action plan that will see the CO2 cap in the emissions trading scheme drop faster over the next decade than previously planned.

The Guardian recently pledged to give the climate crisis the attention it demands. We believe it is important that our readers have a say in how the Guardian and the wider industry reports on the crisis, so we asked young people at the forefront of the fight to share their views

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A government-appointed panel examining ways to increase Australia’s supply of carbon credits has listed the possibility of awarding offsets to facilities in the Safeguard Mechanism that outperform their benchmarks as a potential option.

Biosecurity officers shell-shocked after finding 30 snails never before detected in Australia

Nine-hundred Mercedes-Benz cars have been turned away at the Australian border after dozens of rare and exotic snails were found hiding inside their shipments.

More than 30 heath snails (Xerolenta obvia), which have never before been detected in Australia, were found by the Department of Agriculture in shipments of the luxury German car.

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Speaking with The Conversation's politics podcast, McCormack said in hindsight, it would have been better to have told Nationals who'd been agitating for the code that negotiations were underway. Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Following tensions in the Nationals party room over the bring-forward of the dairy code for Pauline Hanson, the Deputy PM admits that the party leadership mishandled the situation. Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Spending watchdog finds that only three wells have been dug, despite aim to have 20 by 2020

The government’s plan to establish fracking across the UK is years behind schedule and has cost the taxpayer at least £32m so far, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found.

An investigation by the National Audit Office (NAO) said the shale gas industry has launched only three wells in three years, even though the plan was to establish 20 by the middle of next year.

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Malaysia and Indonesia are home to the oldest jungles in the world and produce more than 85% of the world’s palm oil. However, cultivation and production of the oil have caused deforestation, pollution, land degradation and human-wildlife conflict.

Deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia has endangered the Borneo elephant, which depends on forest connectivity to survive, by isolating it from large foraging grounds. Now, some plantations are working with WWF-Malaysia to create ecological corridors to enable the animals to travel between forest patches

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More than 8m squashes likely to be binned after annual lantern carving, study shows

Britons are expected to generate record levels of food waste over Halloween this year.

More than 8m pumpkins – equivalent to more than 18,000 tonnes of edible pumpkin flesh – will be heading for the bin because the majority of consumers will not eat it.

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Despite voting to remain a member of an Australian coal lobby group, there are growing divisions between fossil fuel extractors and the larger energy industry. Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Converted Nissan van called the Dynamo licensed to help clean up capital’s ‘filthy air’

The launch of a fully electric black cab for London has been hailed by the mayor for helping clean up the capital’s polluted air.

The Dynamo, a taxi converted from a Nissan electric van in a Coventry factory, is the first 100% electric taxi on the streets of London since 1899. Its predecessor, the Bersey, failed to take off at a time when most cabs were horse-drawn.

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Seabird conservationists perplexed by discoveries on Mullion island work out depressing explanation

There isn’t a lot to Mullion island, a jagged outcrop of volcanic rock that rises out of a crystal-clear sea just off the Cornish coast. Nobody lives on the island and visitors need a permit to land.

So when conservationists who occasionally paddle across on kayaks to carry out seabird surveys began spotting brightly coloured elastic bands – thousands of them – there was a little bit of head-scratching.

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The Fund is aiming for a 5-star NABERS energy rating for up to 15 new hotels it will own, develop and operate across Australia. It is also Australia’s first hospitality real estate fund to integrate energy sustainability in its investment criteria.

The post CEFC and Pro-invest aim to deliver five star green treatment for new hotels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

"A lot of the issues are around fear, and people finding political advantage of that fear. It doesn't really help."

The post Are political leaders afraid of admitting there is a positive solution to climate change? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nuclear lobby has been making such extraordinary and outrageous claims about wind, solar and batteries it makes you wonder if anything they say about energy can be taken seriously.

The post Why the nuclear lobby makes stuff up about cost of wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Consultation is now open on amendments to the Electricity Retail Code. Submissions on the consultation paper may be made until 6 November 2019.

A particular brand of climate denial among coastal property owners presents a conundrum for councils and governments trying to plan for sea-level rise. Vanessa Bowden, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies, University of Sydney Daniel Nyberg, Professor of Management, Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.