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The US Department of Energy (DOE) continued its streak of heavy investment in emissions cuts, announcing Tuesday $45.6 million in investments in carbon capture, transport, and storage, as well as semi-finalists for an award of $1 mln in direct air capture (DAC) development.

Massachusetts’ power sector Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) auctions for current and future vintages settled below the September sale on lower volumes, according to a report from Potomac Economics published by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).

Canadian auto manufacturers and importers must phase out the sale of new gasoline-fuelled cars via annual zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) regulated sales targets from the 2026 model year, while covered entities will have the ability to generate, bank, and sell credits to meet compliance goals, the federal environment ministry announced Tuesday.

Regulators approve rules to let agencies recycle wastewater into drinking water for homes, schools and businesses

When a toilet is flushed in California, the water can end up in a lot of places: an ice-skating rink in Ontario, ski slopes around Lake Tahoe, farmland in the central valley.

And – coming soon – kitchen faucets.

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Washington state announced a proposal Monday to safeguard thousands of state forestland acres using millions earmarked from carbon market revenues, although local communities and environmental groups continue to contest the government’s auctions of mature state forests for timber harvest.

Wholesale electricity prices declined across the grid in 2023, and batteries are having a growing influence over the market as their numbers and length of storage grows.

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A UAE-based carbon project developer has drawn global focus in signing over a dozen confirmed agreements to source carbon credits from African, Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian countries since the company’s launch a year ago, according to an assortment of sources that raised multiple concerns about overly vague or opaque dealmaking

A blockchain-based environmental trading platform has opened a public comment window for its newly developed credit class and methodology for watershed carbon, it announced Monday.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that it is proposing changes to forest management plans across all national parks and grasslands in an effort to conserve and steward old growth forests, a move hailed by environmental groups as an important first step.

Australia’s federal government has been hollowed out in recent decades. But states can – and still do – deliver. That’s why they are the main drivers of climate action. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The soon-to-be Belgian EU presidency aims to conclude work on the bloc's mammoth Fit for 55 climate policy package and set the stage for post-2030 emissions cuts in time for elections that will signal the start of the new five-year political term.

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A major global environmental consultancy has hired four voluntary carbon market specialists to bolster its growing team.

A crypto asset management firm targeting ESG investors is launching a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with a 20% carbon allowance component, in an effort to create a 'carbon-neutral' investment offering in the crypto market.

Mining companies want biodiversity credits to enable them to go beyond offsetting to make nature positive claims, according to an executive at UK-headquartered The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC).

About 12% of birds have died out as result of human activity in past 120,000 years, say scientists

About 12% of the world’s bird species have been driven to extinction by human activity, new research has found – double previous estimates.

The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, estimates that about 1,430 bird species have died out since the Late Pleistocene period, which started about 120,000 years ago.

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Research on a skeleton dug up during roadworks have shed light on the history of Roman Britain.

Up to 10 million forward carbon credits from three host nations that will be authorised for corresponding adjustments, known as ITMOs, could be for sale in February in an auction, it was announced Tuesday.

The Reykjanes eruption will not cause same travel disruption as 2010's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

The European Commission on Tuesday announced the results of the third call for small-scale projects under the bloc’s EU ETS-financed Innovation Fund, with €65 million being disbursed to 17 clean tech activities.