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Environmental groups are warning of costly and unnecessary litigation as Virginia’s proposed RGGI repeal regulation is unlikely to withstand even cursory legal scrutiny, while opponents are backing the end of the so-called 'tax' that they say significantly increased electricity costs with little real-world CO2 reductions, according to public comments.

Michelle Collins says she is terrified because grey squirrels have been living in her house for years.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices rose to a nearly two-month high this week after member states discussed their plans to potentially tighten allowance budgets under the cap-and-trade system, and as New York officials said they are designing an economy-wide carbon market with RGGI linkage in mind.

Only a vaccine can stop deadly disease from wiping out red squirrels in Wales, warn campaigners.

Average California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices will skew slightly higher this year as speculators jump on regulatory news, while the outlook for financial players in the RGGI Allowance (RGA) market remains bleak in 2023, an analysis firm said in a recent report.

The environment minister says she will ban wet wipes but critics say it barely tackles the problem.

Many blue flag beaches were covered in waste, and Brighton was among the worst-hit, Lib Dem report shows

England’s most celebrated beaches faced 8,500 hours of sewage dumping last year, new figures show.

Many beaches with blue flag status– an international mark of recognition that a beach is deemed safe and has good water quality – were found to have been covered in waste over the last 12 months.

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Promising new green steelmaking techniques won’t work with our main iron ore exports. We must future proof this key industry. Tessa Leach, Senior Analyst at Climateworks, Monash University Tyra Horngren, Senior Analyst (Industry System), Climateworks Centre Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The United Nations’ decision to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on countries’ climate obligations has been hailed as a ‘turning point in climate justice’. Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Zoe Nay, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the voluntary carbon credit landscape continues to face criticism, green-group experts are pondering whether the market could be worth saving and if there are aspects that should be maintained or tossed.

The quarterly corporate reporting deadline alongside the release of the IC-VCM’s core carbon principles (CCP) triggered a bounce in offset futures over the past week even as spot prices barely budged, while there were further rises in prices of removal credits to extend a recent trend.

Move to stop overgrazing harming bird habitats would ‘destroy ancient tradition’ and harm business, say MPs

Farmers and Tory MPs are joining ranks to clash with conservation authorities about the best way to look after Dartmoor national park. Parts of the national park are worryingly overgrazed, particularly by sheep, say nature experts, which is destroying habitats and putting rare birds at risk of local extinction. Breeding populations of moorland birds such as golden plover, red grouse and ring ouzels have now gone or are on the verge of being lost.

Natural England, the government nature watchdog, has advised farmers who are in agri-environment schemes and receive government money for nature friendly farming that they will have to reduce their stocks. It said that in summer, at least 50% of their livestock units should be cattle or ponies rather than sheep, and that “except for pony herds, winter grazing will need to be justified through clear and specific environmental outcomes that require winter stocking”.

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Blood rushes through its veins and the whale’s enormous body shakes slightly

Blue whales are the largest animal ever to have lived – including the dinosaurs – which also makes them the largest animal ever to have slept. All that sleep! A whole whale’s worth, in vast, cold water, the ocean a closed eye, salty and dark. To watch a whale sleeping is to feel as if they have turned the world around them into sleep, that they are suspended in sleep itself, in the liquid that fills your bones when you turn off the light.

Sperm whales sleep vertically, in groups, suspended impossibly, the way an object might be suspended only in a dream. They look like planets, their orbit suddenly stopped. They look as if they could stop time. And maybe they would, if they ever slept for longer than 20 minutes, or closed both eyes.

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In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

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Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, Bluescope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from government, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C.

A joint statement signed by 17 members of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative (ETI) follows their support for a report in February that found they could cut direct emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050 without relying heavily on carbon offsets.

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European carbon surged to its highest in more than two weeks on Monday amid rocketing oil prices and as the market awaited the annual publication of verified emissions data by the European Commission.

Verified emissions from stationary installations in the EU ETS fell by 1.2% in 2022, analysts at ICIS estimated based on preliminary but incomplete data published by the European Commission on Monday.

There is no indication that global stock markets have priced in risk from corporate biodiversity footprints in recent years, but that has begun to change after the high-profile UN summits in Kunming and Montreal, a study has found.

The UK has published an update to its green finance strategy as well as a nature markets framework stating the intention to pilot new finance opportunities that may include biodiversity crediting.

Regulator announces two-year plan in victory for campaigners pushing to clean up England’s rivers

More than £1.6bn is to be invested by water companies in England in the next two years, the regulator, Ofwat, has announced, in a victory for campaigners pushing to clean up rivers.

The investment by water companies has been brought forward to speed up projects to tackle pollution and drought.

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