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The state-led drive towards 100% renewable energy in US continues at breakneck speed as Washington State pass bill requiring 100% carbon-free power by 2045 and coal phase-out by 2025.

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Great Britain set a new record for electricity generation without coal-fired power plants over the Easter weekend.

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Power production from renewables in Germany hit a new record high on Easter Monday, delivering 77% of net public electricity supply, and more than demand at certain times.

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Australia’s suite of stop-start solar policies is driving some parts of the industry crazy with frustration, as the phone stops ringing in Victoria and strict new workplace rules are imposed in Queensland.

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WA mine approved on 10 April despite native species risk and not announced until 24 April

The Morrison government is under fire for quietly approving a giant uranium mine in outback Western Australia the day before the federal election was called, despite warnings it could lead to the extinction of native species.

Canadian company Cameco’s Yeelirrie uranium mine, 500 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie, was approved by the environment minister, Melissa Price, on 10 April. There was no public notification on the decision until 24 April, when documents were posted on the environment department website.

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EU industry’s free allocation of carbon allowances must be phased out urgently as part of a wide-ranging industry climate policy framework to ensure the sector decarbonises following years of flatlining emissions, campaigners Carbon Market Watch said on Thursday.

The Canadian government is still planning to impose its ‘backstop’ output-based pricing system (OBPS) on Ontario emitters despite the province having said it will create its own regulation for large installations in place of the national mechanism, a federal official confirmed Thursday.

A committee of the US wholesale electricity market operator PJM on Thursday voted to assess methods of integrating a carbon price in the 14-jurisdiction market, a policy that could alleviate concerns about emissions leakage in the northeast US RGGI cap-and-trade programme.

EUAs lost more ground on Thursday but kept within sight of their 11-year highs near €28 in choppy, technically-bound trade amid bullish energy signals.

Teenager Greta Thunberg said the UK's carbon emissions reduction relied on "creative accounting".

California officials on Thursday offered a strong rebuke to an academic report that claims California’s forestry protocol under its carbon market inflates the amount of emission reductions that have occurred, arguing the study did not fully understand the protocol or leakage risk.

California legislators may take action on the WCI cap-and-trade programme's growing allowance oversupply if state regulator ARB refuses to do so, a state senator told Carbon Pulse.

Elon Musk recounts "insane” first quarter for the EV maker, with half of Tesla's global deliveries carried out in the final 10 days of the reporting period.

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China's coal generation costs are similar to Australia - and they are not cheap.

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With Easter and ANZAC Day now over, the federal election will shift up a gear next week as the campaign fast approaches the half-way mark.

A new global study has found bigger waves and more extreme winds have hit the world's oceans over the past 33 years, as the Victorian coastline is set to be battered by a massive swell today.

Court decision blocking fossil fuel activity in swaths of the Arctic complicated administration plans to ramp up fossil fuel extraction

The Trump administration has shelved plans to vastly expand offshore oil and gas drilling in the wake of a recent court decision that blocked fossil fuel activity in swaths of the Arctic.

The administration had opened up almost all US waters to companies seeking to drill oil or gas deposits but this expansion has been halted due to a legal setback, according to David Bernhardt, the interior secretary.

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Ceremony in London park marks break in activism after day spent targeting the City

Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion activists have gathered at Hyde Park Corner in London to celebrate a pause in the protests that have gripped London for over a week and are preparing to take the fight back to local communities.

Climate protesters targeted the city’s financial hub on Thursday to highlight the role the sector plays in climate change. The environmental group said it was the last day of action before choosing to stop this stage of its campaign of peaceful mass civil disobedience, following protests in which hundreds of people were arrested and thousands of police officers deployed to sites occupied by the group for more than a week.

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600 scientists call on the EU to make trade with Brazil more sustainable to protect the planet.