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NSW announces interim CEO and investment mandate for newly formed "green bank", with the focus on big and community batteries, pumped hydro and VPPs.

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A Canadian-headquartered forestry investment firm has acquired North America’s largest carbon project developer, including the majority stake held by a European oil major.

California’s fiscal and policy advisory body found merit in Governor Gavin Newsom’s (D) proposal for a $10 billion climate bond that shifts cap-and-trade derived funds, but cautioned about shortcomings of a multi-year approach to adjust to changing priorities.

A federal bill that would permit congress to expedite repeals of regulations adopted during the final days of the former Biden administration narrowly passed the US House on Wednesday.

The EU’s 2014 energy security strategy is no longer fit for purpose due to fundamental supply and demand changes over the past decade, an industry study has found, as it called for a new ETS-funded bank to support electrification.

Democrats in the California Senate and Assembly introduced two bills on Wednesday focused on protecting consumers that are impacted by high fuel costs in light of increased stringency in the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) programme.

A Republican senator in West Virginia reintroduced legislation Wednesday to impose taxation, duration limits, and registration requirements on carbon credit agreements in the state.

A Silicon Valley startup founded by a teenager and focused on carbon removals and regenerative agriculture has raised $3.5 million in seed funding and signed biochar offset deals worth $7 mln.

As an analyst, themes generally tend to emerge and hold court for a while. A few years ago it might be grid forming inverters, two years ago it was wind costs. This year, one of the ITK themes is the role of DER, or distributed energy resources. This note is not even a drive off […]

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A report published Friday by industry and regional advocacy groups in Australia urged the government incentivise dual carbon and biodiversity outcomes through new frameworks, funding, and requirements.

An Indiana bill that proposes to alter the permitting process for CO2 pipelines and sequestration wells passed out of the State Senate Tuesday and was referred to the state’s House of Representatives.

A Canadian company with sights set on developing net-zero nickel to power the EV revolution has won more than C$3 million ($2.4 mln) in federal funding for a pilot plant.

A Pennsylvania-headquartered shale company sold $95 million worth of carbon credits and other environmental assets in 2024, according to fiscal year filings posted Tuesday.

Victoria government's SEC chooses company best known for gravity storage technology to build conventional battery for newly acquired project.

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California regulator ARB granted 3.6 million California Carbon Offsets (CCOs) to an avoided conversion forest project, which took their bi-weekly issuance to all-time highs, but only a small percentage were tagged with direct environmental benefits (DEBs) to the state, data published Wednesday showed.

Two US energy companies announced Thursday a partnership aimed at advancing cost-effective decarbonisation of natural gas power generation via carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Adrián Simancas was kayaking in Bahía El Águila in the strait of Magellan when the whale engulfed him and his yellow kayak for a few seconds before letting him go. He was unharmed. Simancas's father, Dell, who was kayaking with him, recorded the incident

• Just a fluke: whale briefly swallows kayaker in incident captured on camera

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The European Commission will delay its proposal or extending the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to other sectors and downstream products by a year, to 2026, according to a senior official — although it is looking at other potential tweaks to the policy.

RWE, historically the largest emitter in the EU ETS, posted a 8% annual drop in EU lignite-fired power generation in 2024, in preliminary full-year figures published on Thursday.