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A Democratic member of the US House of Representatives introduced Tuesday legislation that would set an enforceable, economy-wide cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requiring emitters to purchase allowances under a declining cap from auctions conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Opposition leader’s argument is puzzling given Canadian provinces dominated by renewables pay less for electricity

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There’s a community in Ontario called Dutton which, right now, seems appropriate given the number of times Peter Dutton has name-checked the Canadian province over the last 12 months.

In dozens of media interviews and speeches, Dutton (the opposition leader, not the township) has said Ontarians are getting cheap electricity because of their 20 nuclear reactors.

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Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.

From the Arctic to the Himalayas, New Zealand and even Mexico, glaciers worldwide are retreating. But what happens when the ice is gone? Levan Tielidze, Research Fellow in glacial geomorphology, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Any heater that burns fuel without adequate ventilation is dangerous in a home – and none are as safe or efficient as a reverse-cycle air conditioner. Christine Cowie, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Air Quality and Health Research and Evaluation, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney; Senior Research Fellow, South West Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Sydney Bill Dodd, Knowledge Broker, Centre for Safe Air (NHMRC CRE), and Adjunct Researcher, Media School, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Wind and solar energy generation in the EU overtook fossil fuels for the first time during the first six months of 2024,

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An environmental nonprofit announced Monday it has joined appeal efforts of Pennsylvania's exit from RGGI, after a decision by the state Supreme Court earlier this month allowed a group of similar organisations to intervene in favour of reinstating the state's participation in the US regional market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Why wind energy costs have not fallen further, why New England farmers said no to million, and the crippling cost of connections and grid congestion.

The post A deep dive into wind economics, and why nine landowners said no to $50 million in hosting fees appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Central General Staff militant group previously said Cop16 event scheduled for October in Cali ‘would fail’

A dissident rebel group has backed down from its threat to disrupt the UN biodiversity summit in Colombia later this year.

The Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said on Wednesday it would order its militants not to target the Cop16 negotiations that are due to begin in Cali in October.

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EU member states will auction 4% more EUAs between September and December this year compared to the same period in 2023, after the European Commission decided to make no changes to the number of permits it sells to fund the bloc’s transition away from Russian fossil energy.

National and state-level jurisdictional REDD (J-REDD) carbon credits are expected to trade as high as $12 per tonne in the early stages of the market’s development, a webinar heard Wednesday.

A startup designing automated production machines that convert in-field agricultural crop waste into carbon-rich biochar, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A round.

Retailers around the world could feasibly reduce their supply chain emissions by 15% across the system using existing technologies, while new innovations and practices could enable an extra 40-50% reduction, according to a report released on Wednesday.

A UK-based forest carbon standard has published an update to its registry fees and confirmed that it has now validated over 650 projects worth nearly 12 million tonnes of sequestration.

Tech giant Microsoft accounted for more than 90% of durable carbon removals over the first half of 2024, according to analysis published Wednesday.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) – a focal point for recent debates on the use of the voluntary carbon market (VCM) to meet corporate climate goals – last week launched a public consultation on a new net-zero standard for financial institution (FI) Scope 3 emissions.

The creature, the size of a poppy seed, dates back 520 million years and is almost perfectly preserved.

The creature, the size of a poppy seed, dates back 520,000 years and is almost perfectly preserved.

An AI-focused startup that develops cleaner materials has appointed a new advisor from Climeworks, following a long career at ExxonMobil, the startup announced on Tuesday.