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Plans to install up to 6GW of wind and solar to produce green ammonia in W.A. have had a nip and tuck, and won massive federal government production incentives.

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The biggest project to win an underwriting agreement under the federal government's CIS is referred to IPC due to weight of opposing submissions.

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A global assurance and certification provider backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives has acquired a US-based clean energy consulting and advisory firm that specialises in carbon offset projects.

California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit prices stabilised in March after regulator ARB indicated that programme changes could take effect in time for Q1 2025 reporting, while Washington's senate considered a bill to increase the stringency of its clean fuels programme Wednesday.

Colombia’s Ecopetrol polluted hundreds of sites, including water sources and wetlands, the BBC finds.

Environmental accounting non-profit Accounting for Nature (AFN) has unveiled plans to launch a separate commercial entity which will draw from its environmental measurement standards to develop natural assets.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says a Coalition government would push for approval of the huge project, which would release billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases. Melissa Haswell, Professor of Practice (Environmental Wellbeing), Indigenous Strategy and Services, Honorary Professor (Geosciences) at University of Sydney & Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney David Shearman, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A group of civil society and research organisations has issued recommendations for governments to reverse forest loss ahead of the COP30 UN climate summit in November.

The lack of regulation behind imported goods to the UK helped destroy an area of global forest equivalent to a mid-sized British city like Cardiff or Liverpool over the past year, according to analysis by a non-profit.

Greenpeace has warned it could be forced into bankruptcy because of the case brought by Energy Transfer.

Bowen announces four new big batteries for the world's biggest isolated grid as a result of the latest tender.

The post Four new giant batteries to be built in W.A. as world’s biggest isolated grid navigates transition from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new report estimates that removing the consumer portion of Canada’s carbon tax could save drivers the amount added at the pumps since inception of the levy, but slow price growth minimally, according to a new report.

US manufacturers are two times more carbon efficient than the world average, and are well-positioned to take advantage of an increasingly emissions-conscious world trade environment, according to a report.

A fracking executive, a former Liberal politician and a lobbyist are behind a new gas advocacy group claiming to represent “households, industries and producers."

The post Meet the people behind the latest gas lobby group claiming to “educate and inform” consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New research could force a fundamental rethink of the nature of space and time.

An upcoming meeting at the UN’s International Maritime Organization's (IMO) is expected to yield small incremental gains rather than a finalised set of policies, said several industry stakeholders.

Households quitting gas to go electric, or minimising use of the costly fossil fuel, have helped push out forecast gas shortfalls by three years, AEMO says.

The post Gas shortage warnings pushed out three years as households and businesses go electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

US states have several mechanisms they can leverage to push direct air capture (DAC) development and adoption forward, with or without federal government support, according to panellists at a conference in New York on Tuesday.

Ottawa is well positioned to step in as a major direct air capture (DAC) player as the US sorts out national climate policies under the second Trump administration, the director of a Canadian DAC industry lobby group told a conference in New York on Tuesday.

A small-scale direct air capture (DAC) project in southern Nevada that uses mineralisation to solve for storage issues is slated to deliver in 2025, the developer told conference attendees on Tuesday in New York.