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A bill introduced in Congress looks to prohibit Natural Asset Companies (NACs) from engaging in business in Utah.

The US DOE is advancing a direct air capture (DAC) programme written into the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) after its funding was previously paused by guidance from President Donald Trump's administration, according to a programme manager at a conservative clean energy group.

Giant eight-hour battery project changes hands, as new owner cites "tremendous" decline in battery costs and key details of its underwriting agreement in NSW.

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Break in cross-party consensus on issue to be announced on Tuesday

Kemi Badenoch is dropping her party’s commitment to reaching net zero by 2050, as she launches the Conservatives’ widest policy review in a generation.

The Tory leader will give a speech on Tuesday in which she will argue that hitting Britain’s legally binding climate target is “impossible”, abandoning one of the most significant policies enacted by her recent predecessor Theresa May.

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California regulator ARB is calling for public comment on drafting its net zero emissions strategy for the cement sector.

New York has received a total of nearly $2 billion in grants to date from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), although federal funding uncertainty could jeopardise the impact of those dollars, according to a new report published by the state.

At least 5.5 million tonnes CO2 will be removed annually by DAC facilities worldwide by 2032, attendees heard at the 2025 Global Direct Air Capture Conference in New York on Monday.

The World Bank's insurance agency has issued a $179.6 million guarantee to a clean cooking carbon project developer covering political risk affecting its credits such as expropriation, international transfer restrictions, and breach of contract.

Research reveals most of the sites the Coalition has earmarked for nuclear power plants would be suitable for pumped hydropower plants. Timothy Weber, Research Officer for School of Engineering, Australian National University Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

GridBeyond announces Chris O'Brien as the new Managing Director of Australia.

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The EU's 27 energy ministers broadly endorsed the European Commission's proposed action plan for affordable energy but revealed deep fault lines over national approaches and choices of energy mix.

A spokesperson for the South African government told the BBC there had been an assault at the station.

Lowering direct air capture (DAC) costs may not have the hoped-for effect of crowding in plentiful buyers, attendees heard at the 2025 Global Direct Air Capture Conference on Monday in New York.

US President Donald Trump signed two joint resolutions into law on Friday, nullifying recent regulations that established the US EPA's methane emissions fee and restricted offshore drilling for oil and gas exploration.

The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.

The Nasa astronauts prepare to head to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into nine months.

Prices generally drifted lower as buying appetite continued to favour the cheap end of the market, but national support for voluntary carbon buoyed sentiment.

Revealed: Edelman worked for Brazilian trade group accused of pushing for environmental rollbacks in Amazon

Edelman, the world’s largest public relations agency, is in talks to work with the Cop30 team organising the UN climate summit in the Amazon later this year despite its prior connections to a major trade group accused of lobbying to roll back measures to protect the area from deforestation, the Guardian and the Centre for Climate Reporting can reveal.

The summit is set to take place in November in the city of Belém on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, which has been ravaged by deforestation linked to Brazil’s powerful agriculture industry. For the first time, the talks will be “at the epicenter of the climate crisis”, the summit’s president wrote last week. “As the Cop comes to the Amazon, forests will naturally be a central topic,” he added.

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A Copenhagen-based investor has secured €12 billion for its largest renewable energy fund to date, it announced last Friday.

Electricity producers have called on the European Commission to improve the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) before it starts applying next year, pointing to the risk of “double paying” CO2 charges when importing from the UK, and asking for “more realistic default values” to be applied when evaluating the carbon intensity of Britain’s electricity exports to Europe.