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Dutton dismissed report on nuclear SMR by the highly respected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, saying he is not interested in the views of "fanatics."

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The attorneys general (AG) of West Virginia and Indiana headlined on Tuesday a consolidated emergency application to the US Supreme Court for an immediate stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) power plant emissions rules after lower courts denied motions to pause the regulations.

Golden California Carbon Offsets (G-CCOs) with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs) sold at a premium to California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) over several days this month when the California-Quebec futures market fell to year-to-date lows, while regulator ARB slowed the pace of offset issuance.

A scan of Canadian corporations demonstrated that while a large majority was unengaged with carbon dioxide removal (CDR), the remaining minority either had limited knowledge with high enthusiasm to learn more or already had active plans to purchase CDR credits, according to a report published by a Canadian think-tank Thursday.

An ethanol producer’s plans for a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant in Brazil are proceeding, but critical investments are held up by a bill that failed to clear the national legislature before it adjourned last week.

Origin to double size of Eraring battery, adding a more than four-hour second stage to help soak up solar at the site of Australia's largest coal generator.

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US states that have primacy to approve carbon storage projects, assume post-injection liability, and codify a legal framework are favoured when considering citing of projects in the nascent technology, attendees of a conference heard this week.

The increase in the number of 'very hot days' of 30C or more has also been dramatic.

The increase in the number of 'very hot days' of 30C or more has also been dramatic.

An endangered rodent and a thorny, impenetrable weed doesn’t sound like a good match. But stick-nest rats have made homes out of African boxthorn Annie Grace Kraehe, PhD candidate, Australian National University Kathryn Hill, Research associate, plant ecophysiology, Adelaide University Robert S. Hill, Executive Dean, Faulty of Sciences, Adelaide University Vera Weisbecker, Associate Professor, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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• Ed Miliband is the energy secretary

The public voted for change at the general election. Perhaps nowhere more than when it comes to energy. Every person and business has paid the price of our country’s energy insecurity. As Vladimir Putin sought to use energy as a weapon in his illegal invasion of Ukraine, bills went through the roof in a cost of living crisis unprecedented in modern times.

As the Climate Change Committee (CCC) recently made clear, there is one obvious answer to preventing us being so exposed again – a sprint for homegrown clean energy. As it said in its progress report to parliament last week: “British-based renewable energy is the cheapest and fastest way to reduce vulnerability to volatile global fossil-fuel markets. The faster we get off fossil fuels, the more secure we become.”

Ed Miliband is the Labour MP for Doncaster North and secretary of state for energy security and net zero

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A Florida resident this month sued a major Canadian athleisure brand alleging that the firm’s marketing campaign misled consumers regarding its environmental impacts.

Father says Grace Rohloff, 20, lost footing about three-quarters into 400ft cables descent and slid down mountain

A father-daughter hike that began with an Arizona college student checking off a bucket list item ended tragically when she was killed after falling down Yosemite’s Half Dome earlier this month.

Grace Rohloff, a 20-year-old hiker, and her father, Jonathan Rohloff, were descending the cables at Yosemite’s summit when she slipped and fell on 13 July, as reported by SFGate. The 14- to 16-mile round-trip hike to Half Dome is known for its difficulty and requires hikers to obtain permits in advance.

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Reconstructing the demise of New Zealand’s extinct moa can help conserve the country’s remaining flightless birds, which are retreating to the same final places - cold, isolated mountaintops. Damien Fordham, Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology, Adelaide University Jamie Wood, Senior Lecturer, Ecology and Evolution, Adelaide University Mark V. Lomolino, Professor emeritus, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Sean Tomlinson, Research Associate, Ecology and Evolution, Adelaide University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Verra’s revamped methodology for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) includes a module for unplanned avoided deforestation that sets jurisdictional baselines instead of relying on project-specific ones, but it will lift the Peruvian government’s nationally set REDD reference level, Carbon Pulse heard on a stakeholder webinar Wednesday.

Campaigners say sudden sale suggests Abrdn’s use of Scottish countryside was ‘get-rich-quick scheme’

A Scottish estate that became a lightning rod for disputes over wealthy “green lairds” buying up the Highlands has been unexpectedly put up for sale.

The Far Ralia estate in the Cairngorms has gone on the market for £12m, three years after it was bought for £7.5m by an investment trust run by Standard Life, now Abrdn, as a way to offset carbon emissions from its properties.

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Credit retirements in the voluntary carbon market fell 10% in Q2 2024 compared to Q2 2023, while corporates are increasingly wary of adopting ‘carbon neutrality’ claims, according to VCM analysts carrying out a quarterly review of the market.

Government data shows China has already installed more than 100GW of new solar capacity this year, bringing the total to more than 700GW.

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A massive expansion of solar and wind energy to meet EU climate goals does not require Europe to compromise on food production or nature protection goals, campaigners said on Wednesday.

Data shows that the global surface air temperature reached 62.87F compared with 62.76F on Sunday.

World temperature reached the hottest levels ever measured on Monday, beating the record that was set just one day before, data suggests.

Provisional data published on Wednesday by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which holds data that stretches back to 1940, shows that the global surface air temperature reached 62.87F (17.15C), compared with 62.76F (17.09C) on Sunday.

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