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European carbon prices stormed to a new 10-year high near €22 on Monday, rising more than €1 or over 5% at one point as the lack of an auction and a UK holiday squeezed supply.

Windfarms fall short in heatwave, but 2018 was still UK’s second greenest summer

Britain’s long heatwave threw the country’s green energy revolution into reverse and pushed up carbon emissions this summer, leading experts to stress the need for a diverse energy mix.

The summer of 2017 was lauded as the “greenest ever” for electricity generation, thanks to a growing number of windfarms and solar installations edging out coal and gas power stations.

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Australia has launched a review into its project methodology for allowing airliners to earn carbon credits, after seeing more than three years go by without issuing a single offset to the aviation industry.

Some of the reporting of the climate impacts of the Dirty Power Plan has been inaccurate

Last October, then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the agency would repeal the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. But because the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that carbon dioxide is an air pollutant and the Obama EPA correctly concluded that it poses a threat to public welfare via climate change, the EPA is legally obligated to do something to address that threat. That meant they needed a replacement plan.

Last week, the Trump EPA unveiled that plan and inaccurately named it the ‘Affordable Clean Energy Rule.’ The rule basically just extends the life of some dirty coal power plants and encourages them to run a bit more efficiently. The rule’s costs in worsening public health far exceed its monetary benefits. It would more accurately be named the ‘Expensive Dirty Power Plan.’

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Australia appears set to extend its policy inertia on climate change issues after new prime minister Scott Morrison over the weekend emphasised his focus would be on bringing down electricity prices, while appointing a renewable energy opponent as his new energy minister.

Tensions between the US and Mexico loom as water dries up in the Rio Grande Valley.

Australia has some of the best drinking water available for free so why do we keep buying it in plastic?

The government has already announced $1.8 billion in drought relief spending, and more measures are thought to be on the way.

China is reconstructing nature alongside rapid urbanisation. Yan Wang Preston photographed the uprooted trees that have been moved to new cities

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The Ministry for the Environment is looking for a Senior Policy Analyst with strong analytical skills to work on issues related to the role forestry plays in New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme.

Sections of the media have talked up the prospects of future power outages, even though the electricity market operator predicts that Australia's stringent reliability standards will still be met. Dylan McConnell, Researcher at the Australian German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ASX-listed Infigen Energy signs power purchase agreement to buy output of 31MW Kiata wind farm, in push into Victoria's commercial and industrial market.

The post Infigen signs PPA with Kiata wind farm in play for Victoria C&I market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scott Morrison gets lesson when major transmission fault causes outages in NSW. Tesla big battery helped keep lights on in SA, Big Banana didn't lift a finger for NSW.

The post On first day as PM, Morrison learns difference between Big Battery and Big Banana appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As the WA government pushes for world heritage listing of the sacred site, traditional owners warn of the threat of heavy industry, acid rain and graffiti

• Burrup peninsula rock art: Western Australia to seek world heritage listing
  

There is a Tasmanian devil on the northwest coast of Western Australia. He sits on a ridge looking back to the Dampier port, where the towers at the nearby liquid natural gas plant flare at dusk.

Another devil sits below him, also looking toward the port. On another ridge made of heaped volcanic rock sits a thylacine, the extinct Tasmanian tiger, the lines difficult to see in the harsh afternoon light. Both species have been extinct on the Australian mainland for more than 2,000 years, but the rocks remember.

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The splitting of the federal government energy and environment policies marks the end of the best chance for bipartisan approach to climate change.

The post Know your NEM: Coalition lurches to right, away from consensus, science and economics appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Politicians and industry insiders respond to new PM's appointment of anti-wind Conservative as energy minister, coal company lawyer as environment minister.

The post A “middle finger” to climate and renewables: Morrison draws fire – and dismay appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Construction officially underway on the first stage of the 321MW Moorabool wind farm being built in central-western Victoria.

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Angus Taylor - who has spent years fighting renewable energy targets and attacking wind farm developments - is now energy minister. We assess.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: What Angus Taylor means for energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Why are millions of people watching videos of men in woods demonstrating "primitive technology"?