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A California Assembly committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would increase the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) in 2030 and set a goal for 100% renewable energy by mid-century.

Energy justice is a social issue, and by leaving it up to vulnerable people to sort it out for themselves, we as a society risk making it even worse. Nicola Willand, Research Consultant, Sustainable Building Innovation Laboratory, RMIT University Ralph Horne, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation; Director of UNGC Cities Programme; Professor, RMIT University Trivess Moore, Lecturer, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers have found that moons in distant solar systems may be the most plentiful habitats in the galaxy.

Commingled bins cause contamination. Is it time to go for separate bins for glass and paper?

It was supposed to be the more efficient solution. Now as governments and local councils search for answers to Australia’s unfolding recycling crisis, the household yellow bin has emerged as both the prime culprit and a potential remedy.

The recycling industry has been in crisis mode since the beginning of the year. On 1 January, China stopped accepting 99% of Australia’s exported recycling due, in part, to their strict new rules on contamination.

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Ontario entities saw access to their cap-and-trade accounts restricted on Tuesday as new Premier Doug Ford officially cancelled the province’s carbon market.

EU carbon prices inched higher for a second day on Tuesday, buoyed by record high power prices that overshadowed the bearish impact of a weak auction.

Kristin Mink approached Scott Pruitt in Washington DC while holding her son and listed reasons why he should resign

“Hi! I just wanted to urge you to resign,” schoolteacher Kristin Mink said as she approached Scott Pruitt at a Washington DC restaurant on Monday, apparently unfazed by Pruitt’s lunch partner and two security guards.

“This is my son,” Mink told the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency while holding her two-year-old in her arms.

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China has officially withdrawn its intention to participate in the UN’s CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme, Carbon Pulse has learned, dealing a massive blow to efforts to rein in the sector’s rising emissions.

It’s time to clean up agriculture and adopt a non-chemical farming policy, says Georgina Downs

So the head of Syngenta, the world’s biggest pesticide maker, urges the continued use of pesticides in agriculture (Pesticide maker says curbs would lead to food crisis in 10 years, 18 June). This is hardly breaking news. Can anybody really be surprised at such a stance from any of the companies that produce these chemicals when their primary concern is to protect profits and to keep pesticides being used.

Considering sales of pesticides in the UK each year are worth about £627m and the world pesticides industry has been valued at $58bn, this is very big business with powerful, vested interests.

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Power sector emissions in California surpassed 2017 levels over the first four months of the year, though fuel consumption for both gasoline and diesel fell simultaneously to possibly counteract the overall impact on cap-and-trade emissions.

China outlined new air pollution targets in its extended anti-air-pollution action plan on Tuesday, according to a State Council statement that includes restrictions on industrial projects in heavily polluted cities that would also curb greenhouse gas emissions.

A US project developer has introduced a new bundled offset product designed for voluntary market buyers looking for offsets “a little more tangible” than current offerings.

Legal bid argues UK is discriminating against next generation by failing to cut CO2 emissions fast enough.

Parliament looking at whether Australia’s regulations allow poached ivory and horns to be passed off as antiques

Australia’s failure to regulate the sale of elephant ivory and rhino horns could be contributing to the demise of the animals, a parliamentary committee has heard.

The committee is looking into the country’s regulations and whether they allow newly-poached ivory and horns to be passed off as antiques.

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British consumers eat chicken twice a week. Are large farms the only way forward?

Britain will need to build more mega-farms to keep it supplied with chicken, according to the head of the UK’s influential poultry lobby.

But the biggest threat to UK consumers, he believes, comes from cheap imported meat – “chlorinated chicken” – produced to lower standards as a result of post-Brexit trade deals.

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From $US1 billion invested in EV production, to its first concept car, EV company goes from tentative toddle to surefooted stride.

Only 40% of waterways surveyed were in a good ecological state – with England one of the worst offenders

The vast majority of Europe’s rivers, lakes and estuaries have failed to meet minimum ecological standards for habitat degradation and pollution, according to a damning new report.

Only 40% of surface water bodies surveyed by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) were found to be in a good ecological state, despite EU laws and biodiversity protocols.

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Abbott finally kills off idea that the NEG can be a political compromise. The choice for Malcolm Turnbull is reduced to capitulation or denial.

juwi has launched a Request for Proposal seeking to acquire large-scale solar projects from developers and landowners in New South Wales and Victoria.

Fortum has come up with a rocking new idea to showcase the clean and quiet face of electric vehicles, by asking passengers to sing along to tunes in return for a free ride in a shuttle.