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How much new dispatchable generation does Australia need?
Australia is facing numerous coal plant closures but no one really knows how much new dispatchable generation is needed to replace it.
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Trump administration's new lead rules in water dismissed as 'window dressing'
Critics say rules give water systems decades more time to replace dangerous pipes and fail to boost urgency for cleaning up lead
The Trump administration is proposing new rules for lead in drinking water, overhauling the regulations for the first time in three decades, following crises in Flint, Michigan, and other US communities, but critics say the changes appear to give water systems decades more time to replace pipes leaching dangerous amounts of toxic lead.
The Environmental Protection Agency would require water systems to notify customers if levels exceed 15 parts per billion. And it would require water testing at schools and daycares.
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Ontario slow to implement climate plan -report
Restaurants' contribution to air pollution revealed
US survey found particle pollution downwind of eateries was higher than from major roads
Many of us have a favourite cooking smell. Maybe yours is baking bread or frying bacon but new types of equipment are revealing how restaurants contribute to our air pollution.
Problems were initially found with meat barbecuing, grilling and charbroiling but we now know that other cooking methods are implicated. Particle pollution from cooking was first identified in the air in London and Manchester about 10 years ago. Predictably, this was greatest at lunchtime and in the evenings; a phenomenon confirmed by more recent measurements.
Continue reading...Newcastle's mine closures: the lessons to be learned
Coal miners and urban greenies have one thing in common, and Labor must use it
EU Parliament wants bloc’s budget to reflect higher climate ambition
Smells like clean spirit: Washington’s Puget Sound releases draft LCFS rule
Where the blame lies for the climate crisis | Letters
Your article (Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all global carbon emissions, 10 October) highlights the biggest polluters and contributors to the climate crisis over the last half-century – the “uncooperative crusties” of capitalism. It is these companies that are standing in the way of progress. But we shouldn’t just look at the carbon they have pumped into the atmosphere, but also the money – our money, in banks and pension funds – that they have invested and the power that huge amount of capital gives them. They can choose to either transform their businesses into something positive for the planet or to extend the shelf life of a carbon-based business model well past its best-before date.
This week, the Treasury select committee asked me, ShareAction and the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association what investors can do about the oil and gas industry. My answer was that we need to use more than just persuasion. Our money can shape the strategies of these companies directly. Savvy investors should back those that respond to change, not the ones who deny the urgency.
Continue reading...Activist climbs plane as Extinction Rebellion takes protest to London airport – video
Several arrested as Extinction Rebellion demonstrators stage sit-in at entrance to London City airport on third day of protests in capital. Flights appeared to be operating as normal, but the group said James Brown, a Paralympian, had climbed on to a British Airways plane and was seen lying on top of it
The protest is against the climate impact of flying and the government’s support for airport expansion
Europe eyes improved 'space weather' resilience
Prosaic but practical: unsexy ways cities can fight the climate crisis – in pictures
Meaningful change doesn’t have to mean groundbreaking innovation, as the seven latest city winners of C40 and Bloomberg Philanthropies Award demonstrate with their solidly pragmatic interventions
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protester, 83, arrested at London City airport – video
Phil Kingston, an 83-year-old climate activist associated with Extinction Rebellion, was arrested during a protest at London City airport on Thursday 8 October.
KIngston, who said he was protesting for his grandchildren and their generation, was one of several people arrested during the demonstration, which organisers say is against the climate impact of flying and the government’s support for airport expansion
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Revealed: top UK thinktank spent decades undermining climate science
Institute of Economic Affairs has links to 14 members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet
The UK’s most influential conservative thinktank has published at least four books, as well as multiple articles and papers, over two decades suggesting manmade climate change may be uncertain or exaggerated.
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has issued publications arguing climate change is either not significantly driven by human activity or will be positive. The group is one of the most politically influential thinktanks in the UK, and boasts that 14 members of Boris Johnson’s cabinet, including the home secretary, foreign secretary and chancellor, have been associated with the group’s past and current initiatives.
Continue reading...How vested interests tried to turn the world against climate science
For decades fossil fuel majors tried to fight the consensus – just as big tobacco once disputed that smoking kills
In 1998 a public relations consultant called Joe Walker wrote to the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade association representing major fossil fuel companies, with a proposed solution to a big problem.
In December the previous year, the UN had adopted the Kyoto protocol, an international treaty that committed signatory countries to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions in order to avert catastrophic climate breakdown.
Continue reading...Carbon taxes have to rise sharply to avoid climate crisis, says IMF
Fund says governments could use money to help vulnerable people or invest in green energy
Avoiding dangerous global heating will require governments around the world to impose stringent taxes on fossil-fuel usage that will mean a 43% jump in household energy bills over the next decade, the International Monetary Fund has said.
The Washington-based Fund said the battle against climate change could only be won if the average carbon tax levied by its member states increased from $2 (£1.63) a ton (907kg) to $75 a ton.
Continue reading...Two-thirds of bird species in North America could vanish in climate crisis
Continent could lose 389 of 604 species studied to threats from rising temperatures, higher seas, heavy rains and urbanization
Two-thirds of bird species in North America are at risk of extinction because of the climate crisis, according to a new report from researchers at the Audubon Society, a leading US conservation group.
Related: Record numbers of Australia's wildlife species face 'imminent extinction'
Continue reading...WCI carbon floor price holding for 2020, but could drop further
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