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Australian zinc-bromine flow battery maker points to China expansion and successful capital raising as reasons for optimism after big drop in quarterly revenue.

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Ninth ERF auction proves complete flop, awarding just $850k in contracts, and achieving just 0.0085% of emissions reductions needed to meet Australia's 2030 target.

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Firm handling half of Victoria’s recycling hoped buyer’s $40m injection would save it but ‘funds have not been received’

The supreme court of Victoria has ordered recycling company SKM to be wound up, as tens of thousands of tonnes of recycling more than previously disclosed may be headed for landfill.

SKM, which is owned by Melbourne’s Italiano family and handles about half of Victoria’s recycling, had staked its hopes on a buyer who was willing to rescue the company with a $40m injection. But a lawyer representing SKM, Reegan Grayson Morison, told the court on Friday that the “funds had not been received as hoped by the company” and SKM was not in a position to oppose the wind-up.

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With the 2020 Large-scale Renewable Energy Target all but met, attention is focused on the LGC surplus in the pivotal 2019 compliance year.

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Victoria's rooftop solar rebate has now entered nightmare territory. There are four possible options available to the state government for ‘fixing’ the scheme.

The post It’s time for Victoria to right the solar ship – before it sinks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL to delay Liddell closure to support "critical" summer demand, performing an about-face on previous claims the ageing coal plant was unreliable – especially in summer.

The post AGL buckles in political heat, agrees to delay closure of Liddell appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There are fears that Skye's fossils of creatures from more than 165 million years ago are threatened by irresponsible collectors.

Preliminary figures suggest last month's temperature equalled or narrowly beat the previous high mark.

TOP STORY Australia sees spectacular volume drop at latest ERF auction Last week’s Emissions Reduction Fund auction contracted just 59,000 carbon credits from three projects, Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator said Thursday, by far the lowest volume of any of the nine auctions held so far. AMERICAS RGGI emissions crater in Q2 2019 on thin Maryland […]

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices fell to a one-month low this week on moderate pre-auction volume on the secondary market, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) dove on bearish emissions data.

Nearly all of the 22 power plants regulated under Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) cap-and-trade programme are operating underneath the programme's 2019 carbon limit through the first half of the year, according to emissions data released Thursday.

Campaigner calls out ‘hate and conspiracy campaigns’ after Australian’s attack

The teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has hit back at the Australian News Corp columnist Andrew Bolt for writing a deeply offensive column that mocked her autism diagnosis.

The Swedish schoolgirl posted a tweet overnight calling out the “hate and conspiracy campaigns” run by climate deniers like Bolt, adopting his insult that she was “deeply disturbed” and turning it back on him.

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In 1973, scientist concluded that controlling UK air pollution needed Europe-wide cooperation

July’s record-breaking temperatures brought summertime smog to most of the UK. Worst affected was eastern England, from Kent to Yorkshire, where air pollution reached seven on the government’s10-point scale.

The heatwave occurred just before the 100th birthday of the scientist James Lovelock. Best known for his Gaia theory, which hypothesises that life on Earth acts as a self-regulating system, Lovelock was also an atmospheric scientist. In 1973 he was part of a team investigating summertime smog in the UK and Ireland. Up until then the idea that the UK, with its damp grey summers, could experience smog like Los Angeles was thought so improbable that no one had made measurements to check. Lovelock and team set up a line of measurement sites from a water tower in Sibton, Suffolk, to Adrigole, near Cork. Not only was there enough smog in the UK to breach US health limits but it was taking days to form in the air, sometimes from sources up to 620 miles (1,000km) away in continental Europe.

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New research shows our galaxy, the Milky Way, is twisted and warped - not flat as previously thought.

Hitting the Paris targets will go a long way to securing Melbourne's water supply against future pressure. Ben Henley, Research Fellow in Climate and Water Resources, University of Melbourne Andrew King, ARC DECRA fellow, University of Melbourne Anna Ukkola, Research Associate, Climate Change Research Centre, Australian National University Murray Peel, Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne Rory Nathan, Associate Professor Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Government spends less than $1m for cut equivalent to only 0.01% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas pollution

The Morrison government’s main climate change policy, the emissions reduction fund, has been labelled “a joke” after its latest auction bought cuts equivalent to only 0.01% of Australia’s annual greenhouse gas pollution.

While the prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced prior to the election that the policy would get an additional $2bn funding, the first post-election auction from the fund dedicated less than $1m to just three emissions reduction projects.

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Residents of Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire, have been evacuated and told to make arrangements to stay elsewhere 'for a number of days' after heavy rain damaged the dam holding back the Toddbrook reservoir, leaving it at risk of collapse.

• Peak District town evacuated as dam threatens to burst

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Once hunted to near extinction, North Atlantic right whales are now facing new human threats.

US RGGI cap-and-trade emissions plunged during the second quarter of 2019, as Maryland and New York-based power generators significantly curtailed their CO2 output amid mild weather in the northeast region.

The big talking point at Clean Energy Summit was the absence of the Coalition government and the lack of network planning. Meanwhile, Lily D’Ambrosio defends solar rebate.

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