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Hearing to help decide fate of solar farm that attracted more than 50 objections is moved online, after only a handful of people register to attend in person. Many objectors live far away.

The post Hearing on contested solar farm next to old coal mine moves online due to “low number of speakers” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Woodside boss repeats claim that Australian gas exports are helping to displace coal in Asia. But this is not what the evidence suggests.

The post Woodside’s claim that gas displaces coal not borne out by evidence – instead it displaces renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The PFAS in lithium-ion batteries is a major obstacle to recycling or disposing of these batteries safely. But we have a way to fix this problem. Jens Blotevogel, Principal Research Scientist and Team Leader for Remediation Technologies, CSIRO Naomi Boxall, Senior Research Scientist in circular economy, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Benchmark California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices found support around the $30-handle, but traders questioned whether this level would sustain ahead of the first quarterly permit sale in a few weeks, while activity in Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) was limited.

Data centres can use vast quantities of water to cool them - but it's not clear where it will come from.

In pulling support for the CQ-H2 green ammonia export project, Queensland’s LNP has chosen tantrum over trade, politics over partnership, ideology over economic sense.

The post Killing Queensland hydrogen project is a spectacular own goal by LNP at the worst possible time appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rio Tinto is looking to add battery storage to contracted wind and solar to power its giant smelters in Australia, saying they have no future with coal generation because of high costs and emissions.

The post Rio Tinto turns to big batteries to underpin green smelters, as firmed renewables eclipse gas and coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A group of Iowa House Republicans introduced several bills on Thursday that aim to put new regulations on CO2 pipeline development.

John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council discusses what's on agenda ahead of federal poll, and as SEC celebrates its 70th anniversary. Plus: Energy news of the week.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Energy industry gets ready for election appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brazil's finance ministry is proposing to create a new agency to regulate and manage the country's recently approved ETS, national media reported Thursday.

The Public Accounts Committee warns the government of gambling public money on carbon capture.

A UK parliamentary committee has published a report highlighting significant risks and uncertainties in the government's carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) programme.

A Latin American carbon markets platform will host a show-and-tell for the first auction of carbon credits eligible toward payment of Chile’s CO2 tax next week, it announced Thursday.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has rescinded previously pledged funding to the UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) amounting to some $4 billion, alongside a pullback of voluntary climate risk determinations from major US banks.

The US Secretary of Energy appears to be making good on President Donald Trump’s promise to "unleash" fossil fuels with a new order moving forward plans announced in the president’s inaugural speech.

A New Jersey state judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against several oil giants that sought to hold the oil companies liable for alleged damages wrought by climate change.

Carlyle-backed Amp Energy lands first of its kind finance for a major solar and battery project that will help propel South Australia to net 100 per cent renewables by 2027.

The post Huge solar and battery project to help propel South Australia towards 100 pct net renewables and beyond appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists say it is unclear how many more earthquakes will come to the idyllic Greek island.

Replanting habitat corridors offers wildlife a way to move between isolated habitat – and much of this is done by volunteer groups. Nigel Tucker, Research Associate in Environment and Sustainability, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers have found a pattern indicating certain ‘words’ are used more often than others – but humans won’t be speaking whale any time soon

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Humpback whale song is structured in a similar way to human language – with shorter sounds used far more often than more complex ones – a structure which helps infants quickly learn how to communicate from their elders in both species.

Across languages and whale song, some words, or word-like elements, are used frequently while others are infrequent. They follow a pattern known as “Zipfian distribution”, where the most used word in a language (like “the”) is used about twice as often as the second most common word, and three times as frequent as the third most common word and so on.

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