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US-based Constellation Energy plans to restart the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, which was closed in 2019, under a 20-year deal with Microsoft to supply carbon-free energy to its data centres.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will fund up to $1.8 billion of mid-scale and large-scale direct air capture (DAC) facilities, according to a Notice of Intent (NOI) issued on Friday. 

The hearings have included new video and insights from those who worked on the Titan that day

Climate Asset Management (CAM) has secured over $1 billion to invest in natural capital initiatives such as regenerative agriculture, as investor demand for projects aimed at improving soil health, planting trees, and rehabilitating land continues to grow, the firm’s CEO has said.

The majority of automakers in Europe and North America have not set targets for integrating fossil-free steel, according to a report released Wednesday. 

The California-Quebec joint WCI auction in November will offer a higher volume of allowances this quarter following Q3's year-to-date nadir, according to a Friday notice from California regulator ARB.

Pennsylvania plant was site of most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history in 1979

A nuclear reactor at the notorious Three Mile Island site in Pennsylvania is to be activated for the first time in five years after its owners, Constellation Energy, struck a deal to provide power to Microsoft’s proliferating artificial intelligence operations.

The plant was the location of the most serious nuclear meltdown and radiation leak in US history, in March 1979 when the loss of water coolant through a faulty valve caused the Unit 2 reactor to overheat. More than four decades later, the reactor is still in a decommissioning phase.

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Four protesters against North Sea oil and gas licences have charges of criminal damage thrown out

Four Greenpeace activists who staged a “no new oil” protest on the roof of Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire manor house have had charges of criminal damage thrown out.

The activists said “justice and common sense” had prevailed after a judge on Friday ruled the evidence against them was “tenuous” and they had no case to answer.

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An offshore aquaculture company based in the Faroe Islands has received €2.5 million from a fund managed by the investment arm of a Dutch bank.

The carbon removals (CDR) market needs offtake agreements with built-in de-risking measures to scale and offer attractive credit prices, a dealmaker told Carbon Pulse.

A ban on exporting offshore gas was lifted in WA this week, and the Greens say two of the ‘biggest winners’ were the massive resources companies

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Western Australian gas companies Mineral Resources and Woodside gave more than $20,000 to WA Labor while it was considering changes to its domestic gas policy that allowed more gas to be exported from the state.

On Thursday the state government lifted a ban on onshore gas being exported, allowing 20% to go overseas until 2031, in a change the premier, Roger Cook, said would boost the state’s gas industry.

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Verra is damaging investor confidence in the voluntary carbon market through its “presumption of guilt” when handling investigations, warned stakeholders in the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project (SCRP) that says it lost more than $30 million in revenue during a 14-month long probe.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved final guidance Friday regarding the listing for trading of voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts.

Swedish carmaker Volvo has published a position paper on nature and biodiversity, pledging to take action to reduce its impacts and to invest in conservation and restoration to counterbalance residual negative effects of its activities.

With the European Commission’s new lineup it will be the EU’s climate action commissioner who will handle taxation policy, a move hailed as a “breakthrough” by a top official, although it is still unclear who will be in charge of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

A developer partnership announced Thursday the first tranche of issuance from their second improved forest management (IFM) project in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula region.

A European carbon trader previously with Freepoint Commodities has started with Switzerland-headquartered trading firm Gunvor Group, Carbon Pulse has learned.

British growers are taking a increasing share of sales long dominated by imports by focussing on green credentials

From the tip of Cornwall to the far reaches of Scotland, the shoots of resurgence in the British cut-flower market are raising hopes of a fledgling return to home-produced fragrant flowers becoming a bigger part of the £1bn industry in the UK.

UK flower production bloomed to £179m last year, according to figures from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, up from £126m in 2019. The market has been dominated by imports, usually from Holland, for more than 50 years, but last year imports fell slightly to £761.8m from £869.1m in 2022.

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The continued existence of a large thermal coal mine in Sarawak, Malaysia, goes against the nation’s climate commitments and the opacity surrounding environmental approvals to its extension is a problem, an environment watchdog said Friday.

The European carbon market moved with relative stability on Friday morning, ticking higher tracking a rebound in energy markets after a volatile previous session linked to reports of a Ukraine-Azerbaijan gas transit deal.