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Ausnet canvasses idea of charging connection fees of "several hundreds of dollars" to new solar households that refuse network limitations.

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California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) will retire future vintage allowances next year to meet the uncovered carbon obligations of the La Paloma generating station during the 2015-2017 period, pending approval of the regulator's proposed amendments, officials said.

Green group leaders are debating the efficacy of including Republicans in future climate policy efforts and resisting Trump administration environmental rollbacks after Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday's US midterms.

EUAs stretched their relief rally to a fourth day on Wednesday as another strong auction helped push prices above €18 and key technical resistance to further bolster bulls’ confidence.

Scientists spent several days trekking through rural Borneo to find the 40,000-year-old artwork.

The earliest known painting of an animal has been identified in a cave on the island of Borneo.

Mushrooms for lunch inspire scientists to try to generate electricity from a fungus covered in bacteria.

Italian utility Enel advanced its hedging over the third quarter while it sold more power, it said in financial results on Wednesday, representing a slightly bearish signal for carbon.

India is aiming to launch a pilot carbon market mechanism for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and the waste sector by March of next year, according to official documents.

The joint Europe-Russia mission to the Red Planet in 2020 needs a destination to go do its science.

South Korea's government on Wednesday for the first time ordered selected coal- and oil-fired thermal plants to cut output in a bid to reduce heavy air pollution, an ad-hoc day-by-day move set to become a more regular occurrence impacting CO2 levels next year when the government imposes mandatory rules.

Countries should prioritise domestic emissions reductions over international credits, according to New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister James Shaw.

The Chinese megacity of 12 million people is crowded, polluted, and vulnerable to flooding. A rooftop garden is using plants to make stormwater work for the city, and to improve the livelihoods of residents

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The Federal Government is claiming a victory - of sorts - in its bid to get energy retailers to lower their prices by January next year.

The forecast arrival of El Niño may mean the east coast of Australia will experience an exceptionally hot and dry summer, but does this mean there will be fewer mosquitoes buzzing about? Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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California voters elected Democrat Gavin Newsom as their next governor, while Democrats flipped one of the eight gubernatorial races in the RGGI area during Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Washington’s second attempt at letting voters decide on implementing the first state-led carbon tax in the US appeared destined for failure on Tuesday evening, marking the latest setback in the Evergreen State’s ongoing struggle to put a price on carbon.