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Sources say government has dismissed some of the more ambitious ideas for fixing sewage crisis

Anti-sewage campaigners have warned of “extreme anger” if the Labour government does not radically reform the water regulator.

Sources at the Environment Agency (EA) and in the Labour party have told the Guardian that while Labour had spent time considering reforms of the EA and Ofwat in order to fix the sewage crisis, some stricter options that had been proposed were now off the table.

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Essential Energy says it could connect more than 8GW of large-scale renewables “right now” using the existing NSW electricity distribution network. But the rules prevent it from doing so.

The post Faster, fairer, cheaper: Regional network says renewables gap could be filled quickly, if the rules allowed appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Labor introduces Future Made in Australia bill, but Coalition says it will oppose it and the Greens want guarantees fossil fuels won't be funded.

The post Coalition says no to Future Made in Australia bill as Greens question fossil fuel funding appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The rise of ‘pyrokaryotes’ could reduce the availability of fish humans eat, and hamper the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon emissions. Ryan Heneghan, Lecturer in Environmental Modelling, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Climate protesters were removed from Parliament House by police on Wednesday morning. In a statement, the protesters said they felt 'betrayed by the Albanese government’s abandonment of major reform to our environment laws earlier this year, following pressure from coal and gas companies'

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The automotive finance arm of a major carmaker in South Korea has created a business model that can generate carbon credits for electric vehicles by leveraging the parent group's resources.

Investigations into the turbine blade failure at the first commercial offshore wind farm in the US point to a manufacturer fault that "should have been detected."

The post Embarrassing blade failure and the struggle for answers at first offshore wind farm in US appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ARB issued a 15-day notice late Monday for accepting public comments to modifications of proposed changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), sending credit futures in the secondary market trading through a wide intraday range on Tuesday.

Australia's biggest coal generator celebrates success of its first big battery, and says waiting for nuclear to replace its coal assets will put it out of business.

The post AGL hails performance of first big battery, says waiting for nuclear would put it out of business appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Another electric van is about to enter Australia's nascent market, but they are already hugely popular in Europe. Here's why.

The post The Driven Podcast: The case for electric vans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Market participants expect the upcoming WCI auction on Wednesday to settle at the lowest level in more than a year and at a discount to front-month futures, while analysts forecast a broad range of estimates considering a mix of bearish market sentiment and opportunistic buying from speculators. 

Local authorities are seeking to build a seawall to prevent further intrusion of the ocean to the village.

AGL snaps up battery and solar project developers with more than eight gigawatts of capacity in development.

The post Coal giant AGL snaps up battery and solar developers with pipeline of more than eight gigawatts appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened Tuesday applications for $54.4 million in funding to support the development of technologies for the capture, transport, conversion, and storage of CO2.

Unicef analysis also finds children in eight countries spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35C

Almost half a billion children are growing up in parts of the world where there are at least twice the number of extremely hot days every year compared with six decades ago, analysis by Unicef has found.

The analysis by the UN’s children’s agency examined for the first time data on changes in children’s exposure to extreme heat over the past 60 years.

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Campaigners warn more cows could be spending their entire productive lives indoors.

Charity Commission says tweets about environmental protections were inappropriate in ‘tone and nature’

The RSPB has been criticised by the English charities watchdog over social media posts in which it accused named government ministers of being “liars” for watering down environmental protections.

The Charity Commission said the tweets a year ago were “inappropriate” in “tone and nature”, they had not been signed off at the correct level and the RSPB could have done more to prevent them going out.

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The biggest single wind project in Australia - at least for now - has obtained its registration and entered the grid management system.nn-

The post Australia’s biggest wind farm enters grid management system after delays and cancellations appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fires made at least three times more likely by climate crisis and emitted about 2bn tonnes of CO2, data reveals

Canada’s “record-shattering” wildfires last year produced nearly as much greenhouse gas emissions in one season as would be expected over a decade of fires in normal circumstances, data has shown.

The fires, in Canada’s “wildest season ever”, were made at least three times more likely by the climate crisis, and produced about 2bn tonnes of CO2, about a quarter of the total global emissions from wildfires last year, according to data in the State of Wildfires report, published on Wednesday.

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The person who was killed worked at a remote radar site in Canada's Arctic region.