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Battery storage is entering the mainstream: in households and streetscapes, and with renewables and as "virtual" transmission lines.

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German pilot project has made kerosene using concentrated sunlight, water and CO2 for the first time.

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At least 11 million people around the world held jobs across the renewables sector, from manufacturing and trading to installation.

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Capricornia MP compares Carmichael mine environmental impact to that of a Sydney apartment block

The Nationals MP Michelle Landry has conceded she does not have an exact figure for the number of ongoing jobs to be created by Adani’s Carmichael coalmine, but claimed it would be “considerable”.

In an interview marking the Queensland government’s decision to sign off on Adani’s groundwater management plan, Landry also compared the mine to an apartment block in Sydney, arguing that in neither case could regulators be certain of the environmental impact of the projects.

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Actress Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny Weasley, meets children who are upcycling their toys.

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California regulator ARB cited numerous errors in a recent policy brief criticising the state’s cap-and-trade forestry protocol, while refusing an independent technical review of the methodology requested by state legislators, according to a letter seen by Carbon Pulse.

Ottawa will not impose its federal carbon tax on Alberta until Jan. 1, 2020 after the province’s new conservative government eliminated its C$30/tonne levy last month, allowing the country’s largest-emitting jurisdiction to avoid paying for some fossil fuel-related emissions over at least the next seven months.

The New Brunswick government proposed its own output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large emitters on Thursday, but the market’s less stringent facility-based industrial benchmarks and electricity standards could run afoul of the Canadian federal government’s ‘backstop’ mandate.

US-based environmental analytics firm Ecosystem Marketplace has lost its program manager to embattled green group The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Carbon Pulse has learned.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices plummeted by double-digits over the week, a move traders attributed to options positions and post-auction regrouping, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) also dropped despite a surge of activity on the secondary market.

After nine years of planning, negotiations and protests, Adani's controversial Carmichael coal mine in the Galilee Basin has received its final environmental approvals from the Queensland Government.

Canada can meet its Paris Agreement goal by roughly doubling the price of its rising ‘backstop’ carbon tax to C$102 ($77) and expanding the policy’s geographical and sectoral coverage, all at a relatively small economic cost, according to a government report released Thursday.

Police said nine people in total had been arrested in connection with the demonstration in the Cromarty Firth.

Hundreds of irrigators in southern NSW have signed up to join a $750 million class action, claiming economic loss as a result of "reckless" water management by the Murray Darling Basin Authority.

EU airlines are being advised to continue monitoring their 2019 international flight emissions despite a lack of rules to govern the process due to bureaucratic delays.

It's been years in the making, but Adani's controversial Queensland coal mine is finally shovel-ready. Yet significant scientific questions remain, such as the impact on the region's aquifers. Adrian Werner, Professor of Hydrogeology, Flinders University Matthew Currell, Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs lifted back towards €25 on Thursday, with carbon barely responding to a jump in oil prices as the ongoing Brexit debacle helped to cap gains.

UK-based coal-fired power station Fiddler's Ferry will close its remaining operational units by next year, owner SSE announced on Thursday amid toughening economic conditions for the plant.

Investigation reveals no plan is in place to tackle increase in levels of agricultural ammonia, a gas contributing to thousands of deaths in UK alone

• Analysis: dealing with ammonia is an urgent health problem
• Testing reveals hotspots at UK farms

One of the most potent air pollutants is on the rise in the UK, but the government has no comprehensive monitoring, little enforcement, and almost no funding or clear plan to reduce the emissions, an investigation has found.

Evidence obtained by a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and Channel 4 News suggests that at least 3,000 deaths each year could be avoided if agricultural ammonia emissions were halved.

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