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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has not delivered its recommendations on which small refiners should receive compliance waivers under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and the EPA is likely to grant those exemptions on a “rolling basis” once the agency has received them, Administrator Andrew Wheeler said Tuesday.

Swiss-headquartered commodity trading house Ezpada has hired a veteran options trader to help it expand its carbon desk.

An Oregon state senator introduced an amendment Monday to the proposed WCI-modelled carbon market bill that would nix the state’s low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) to avoid overlapping emission reduction policies.

A Connecticut legislative committee will not review the state's revised RGGI cap-and-trade regulation until late May, meaning the post-2020 Model Rule changes of the northeast US ETS will not take effect until this summer, a state official confirmed to Carbon Pulse.

Bank Australia becomes second Australian company to sign up for 100 per cent renewable energy initiative, and calls on other business to lead transition.

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The $2bn promised for Australia’s greenhouse gas abatement projects will be spread over 15 years, not 10, Tuesday’s budget revealed

The Coalition plans to spend its $2bn “climate solutions fund” over 15 years, not 10, as promised when it unveiled the rebadged emissions reduction policy in February.

The decision, revealed in Tuesday’s budget, effectively cuts the amount spent per year from $200m to $133m over the life of the fund, which pays polluters to implement greenhouse gas abatement projects.

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European carbon prices ended back above €22 on Tuesday on the back of technical buying and short-covering by speculators, and as coal prices continued to crater.

France will begin auctioning green certificates in September, host platform EEX-owned Powernext said Tuesday in confirmation of supply that many observers expect to weigh on prices this year.

A new space-based system to monitor aircraft worldwide is live and being trialled over the Atlantic.

Sophie Edmonds, CEO of Water Smart Foundation, responds to an EU move against single-use plastics

This move by the EU (European parliament votes to ban single-use plastics, theguardian.com, 27 March), is certainly a start, but it’s not far enough to only ban certain items and increase recycling promises. We need to ban single-use plastic bottles if we are to start turning the tide on plastic in our environment, and especially the dangers of microplastics in our water supply. As there were more than 480bn plastic bottles made worldwide in 2016, it will soon be the case that stopping using single-use plastics will not be enough.

While there is technology that effectively removes plastics and microplastics from water, which we install to raise money for our causes, we cannot rely solely on “saviour” technologies. In the wake of Blue Planet there were many that seemed to appear on a weekly basis, but these are either in development or simply not ready.

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The federal government report warns Canada's Arctic is most affected by the changing climate.

A European spacecraft has confirmed a report of methane being released from the surface of Mars.

Some make-up companies are reporting record sales of products which claim to protect skin from toxic air.

Oil major Shell will terminate its relationship with a US trade organisation and found misalignment with nine other North American and European industry associations due to their position on climate change issues, according to a company report released Monday.

It is the first time a company not running a coal-fired power plant has come near the top of the ranking.

Two British companies are to push forward with the development of an ultra-low-cost radar satellite.

Australia’s A$2 billion ($1.42 bln) top-up of the Emissions Reduction Fund will be allocated over 15 years instead of 10 as previously announced, with less than 10% of that due over the next four years, government budget papers showed Tuesday.

Germany cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 4.2% in 2018, its government announced on Tuesday, recording a significant reduction after almost a decade of stagnation.

Boston Tea Party's owner said global coffee shop brands were "putting profits before the planet".

Australia’s industrial GHG emissions would rise 22% above 2005 levels by 2030 without reforms to the Safeguard Mechanism, analysts said Tuesday, though a potential new Labor government pushing such reforms might face an uphill battle in parliament should it try to legislate changes.