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US biofuel credit (RIN) prices under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) dropped on Tuesday morning after a media outlet reported that EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler defended the programme’s existing compliance waiver process at a recent meeting.

You may love the mini bottles of posh shampoos on your hotel stay, but 200m of them are dumped in landfill each year. There is a better way

The Blue Planet effect has swiped its keycard and entered the mainstream hospitality sector. In an effort to kick out avoidable single-use plastic by 2021, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) in the UK, will remove all small plastic toiletry bottles from its 843,000 rooms in 5,600 hotels.

If you’re a regular hotel guest, especially at low-cost chains, you may have already experienced the switch to those bulk dispensers and the multipurpose surfactants that promise to do multiple jobs: ie shampoo and condition.

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Wildlife photographer Chase Dekker took the photos while whale watching in California.

Corrupt officials are forging documents to allow the wood to leave the country, environmentalists say.

European carbon prices eased on Tuesday on the back of a lacklustre auction result and softer energy complex, but buyers once again swooped in to keep prices above €28 ahead of a month-long EUA auction supply cut.

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New Zealand should seek a deal where the government could buy Australian carbon credits and auction them off to domestic emitters as part of the strategy to meet its Paris treaty obligations, brokerage OM Financial said Tuesday.

Voracious Arion vulgaris slugs have spread across Europe from Spain and are major pests.

New South Wales Energy and Environment Minister Matt Kean on Tuesday said his state might go it alone on a climate policy for the energy sector unless Australia’s federal government steps up, prompting fresh speculation that a state-led initiative to curb emissions might emerge.

Labour says fracking for gas will prevent Britain meeting carbon emissions target

Jeremy Corbyn has urged Boris Johnson to ban fracking for gas as research by Labour shows it will stop the UK meeting a net zero target for carbon emissions this century.

The analysis was published ahead of a visit by the Labour leader to join anti-fracking protesters at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire.

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This iridescent beauty is back in Norfolk for the first time since the 70s – and marching north

Every July in the 1980s, my dad and I visited Foxley Wood, an ancient woodland close to my home. We were searching for the purple emperor, an iridescent purple, treetop-dwelling insect that inspires more obsession than any other butterfly.

Last seen in Norfolk in the early 70s, it fell extinct because Foxley, like many ancient woodlands, was turned over to conifers after the war. We hoped this notoriously elusive creature survived but, if it did, it always eluded us.

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Finite Carbon is seeking a Director of Forest Carbon Origination to support the development of Finite’s growing portfolio of forest offset projects. The candidate will join a team of 14 employees including 10 full-time foresters who provide unmatched technical expertise and implementation capabilities.

The 119MW wind farm, made up of 32 cutting edge GE turbines, officially opens in South Australia's mid-north.

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Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel says that the production of hydrogen from coal and gas may be neccessary to meet global transport energy needs.

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ESB chair tells Clean Energy Summit state governments are leading the energy transition, as NSW threatens to go it alone if federal Coalition doesn't get its act together.

The post Schott says Feds “can’t get their act together” on climate, so states will step up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BP’s head of technology David Eyton tells BNEF that BP wants to charge EVs to 100% within just five minutes.

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Solar boom that began in 2016 is having marked impact on wholesale prices, even in winter, and may rethink investment decisions.

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Thousands of tonnes of plastic have accumulated on the pristine beaches of Henderson Island in the Pacific's Pitcairn archipelago. Along one stretch of 2.5km, an estimated 18 tonnes has piled up over decades, at the rate of several thousand pieces of plastic per day. A team of scientists, conservationists and two journalists from New Zealand’s Stuff.co.nz spent two weeks collecting six tonnes of the rubbish to gain more insight into where it had come from, and how it could be prevented in future. 

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The Driven and RenewEconomy are delighted to announce the program for the inaugural Electric Vehicle Transition Conference, featuring many of the country’s leading policy and technology experts and analysts.

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