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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing Wednesday during which a bipartisan group of senators underscored the need for a more streamlined permitting regime for carbon capture, utilisation, and sequestration (CCUS) projects.

The US DOE approved the disbursement of a $1.67 billion loan guarantee that had been finalised in the last days of the Biden administration, it said on Tuesday, enabling the expansion of a Montana sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) refinery.

Infrastructure provider Xpansiv announced new guidance on Tuesday for its voluntary initiative inspired by California's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and clean fuels policies.

Honduras has received feedback from a UN technical team on its reporting under the UNFCCC REDD+ payment for ecosystem services mechanism, in which it claimed nearly 12 million tonnes CO2 in reductions – thereby entering the final verification stages for REDD+ results that could become Article 6 credits.

China saw coal power construction last year reach its highest level of the past decade despite rapid addition of renewables, amid an entrenched reliance on fossil fuels, according to a report published Thursday.

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Selling power from your EV back to the grid is now possible. Early adopters say it’s not simple – but change is coming Scott Dwyer, Research Director, Energy Futures, University of Technology Sydney Jaime Comber, Senior Research Consultant in Energy Futures, University of Technology Sydney Kriti Nagrath, Research Principal in Energy Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Business organisations on Tuesday wrote to the US EPA asking the agency to expedite its review of Texas’ Class VI primacy application to support the state’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

State energy committee chairs have introduced a bill on Monday seeking to align California's tax laws with federal provisions by excluding certain environmental credit-related payments from taxable income.

Climate change is pushing crocodiles outside their comfort zone, and there may be a limit to how much their natural cooling behaviours can help them beat the heat. Kaitlin Barham, Wildlife ecology researcher, The University of Queensland Craig E. Franklin, Professor in Zoology, The University of Queensland Ross Dwyer, Senior Lecturer, Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The UK ETS Authority has opened a consultation on the next stage of the country's carbon market, advocating both its continued operation beyond 2030 as well as the banking of allowances between its current and future phases, though market sources cited surprise, having assumed the government commitment was already there.

The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.

The discovery has been described as one of the most important pieces of Roman history in the City of London.

The Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) has signed an agreement with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to help build Article 6 capacity around the world, they announced Wednesday.

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is undergoing a transformation that goes far beyond headline issuance and retirement data, according to a new report, though the recovery will not come overnight and value could take years to fully scale.

Carbon methodologies designed to credit for high forest, low deforestation (HFLD) should not be seen as additional and risk undermining carbon market integrity initiatives, according to climate experts, with voluntary carbon integrity body the ICVCM still considering the merits of one such programme for its quality stamp.

Eighty-nine percent of REDD+ carbon projects propose a mix of monetary and non-monetary benefits, according to a recent report that analysed 347 projects across 55 countries.

Prices of English biodiversity net gain (BNG) off-site units paid by developers have remained stable over the last year, with the exception of some waterbodies, according to a report released Wednesday.

Dutch environmental group Milieudefensie is taking Shell to the Dutch Supreme Court in a bid to force the oil and gas major to halve its CO2 emissions by 2030, after an appeals court overturned a landmark 2021 ruling that initially backed the demand.

An influential Swiss-based non-profit has urged governments to mandate nature-related reporting for artificial intelligence (AI) data centres in order to better manage the sector’s dependencies and impacts on the environment.