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Hawaii utility announces seven grid-scale solar-plus-storage projects to add approximately 262MW of solar energy and 1,048MWh of energy storage to the islands.

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300MW solar and battery-ready Mannum Solar Farm set to be built by Canadian Solar, help power Mid-Murray region agribusinesses, including major wine maker Pernod Ricard.

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Public confidence in the institutions in charge of the Murray Darling Basin has plummeted – with good reason. Jason Alexandra, PhD candidate, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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The Inter-American Development Bank seeks a climate change finance consultant to coordinate the technical revision of climate change finance programs/project proposals for the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) and other major providers of concessional climate finance.

NRDC is seeking a Climate Advisor to work with the City of Portland as part of the American Cities Climate Challenge (ACCC).

The City of Tacoma is looking for a CAISO analyst to optimize and track transactions with the California ISO (CAISO) in the Day-Ahead and Hourly markets as well as with any future implementation of the Western EIM. The role will also be responsible for maintain's the carbon compliance obligation for the utility.

New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) is aiming to draft regulations for the post-2020 RGGI Model Rule by the end of Q1, a regulatory source said.

"We're just not getting that government support consistently across Australia to get those market changes we need."

California's Air Resources Board is seeking an applicant to head the agency's Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division.

EU carbon prices recovered most of their early fuel-related losses on Monday as traders braced for more big moves this week from a crunch Brexit vote in the UK and the resumption of coal phase-out talks in Germany.

New government strategy aims to reduce ammonia emissions by changing farming methods

Muck-spreading, the agricultural practice of spraying fields with liquid manure, will effectively be banned under government plans to reduce air pollution.

Animal manure is a key source of ammonia, a powerful pollutant that, combined with other chemicals in the air, form fine particles that can lodge deep in the lungs, harming human health.

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California regulator ARB is losing its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) branch chief to a renewable natural gas trade group.

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced Monday that it will pursue bankruptcy protection as it faces significant litigation and possible liabilities from a devastating wildfire last year.

Opponents know least about the science but believe they know the most, surveys find

The most extreme opponents of genetically modified foods know the least about science but believe they know the most, researchers have found.

The findings from public surveys in the US, France and Germany suggest that rather than being a barrier to the possession of strongly held views, ignorance of the matter at hand might better be described as a fuel.

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Experts hope cities can provide sanctuary for pollinators as rural populations decline

Allotments, weedy corners and fancy gardens are all urban havens for bees and other pollinators, a study has found.

The widespread decline of bees resulting from the loss of wild areas and pesticide use has caused great concern in recent years, but towns and cities have been suggested as potential sanctuaries.

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