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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices will trend slightly lower this year as GHG output drops from the power and industrial sectors, while next week’s quarterly RGGI auction will clear at a significant premium to current secondary market levels, according to a recent analyst report.

A US government agency granted an exemption to the operator of California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant that allows the facility to run while the agency considers its license renewal application, according to a notice filed on Thursday.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices shot up to new 2023 highs this week following a robust Q1 auction clear and encouraging regulatory announcements from several California ARB officials, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) recorded their first trades in months after the programme’s inaugural auction took place.

Amid turbocharged renewables growth, nuclear power remains stagnant – only an acceleration of China’s program will save it from a death spiral.

The post Is nuclear power in a global death spiral? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SwitchDin unveils plans to build the Southern Hemisphere’s largest dedicated test lab for distributed energy resources (DER) in Newcastle.

The post Cutting edge distributed energy test lab in works for New South Wales coal centre appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A New York biomass-fired power facility remains the only entity non-compliant with the RGGI cap-and-trade programme's true-up deadline for the sixth straight year, according to CO2 Allowance Tracking System (COATS) data published Thursday.

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California regulator ARB on Thursday announced it has for the second time voided compliance offsets from a Wisconsin-based livestock project, after the initiative was found once again to be in violation of a state waste management permit and groundwater standards.

A carbon credit ratings agency has downgraded a Verra-accredited renewables project in Vietnam, while putting three more on watch for a potential ratings change. 

An international network of environmental organisations on Wednesday cautioned against support for US agricultural carbon markets, citing risks that the offsets may fail to live up to environmental claims while enabling the biggest agribusiness corporations (Big Ag) to entrench market power and greenwash operations.

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Researchers solve puzzle of how animal generates enough air flow 1,000 metres under water, where pressure is 100 times that at surface

The question of how the whale got its voice has been solved by scientists, who have discovered how the creatures use “phonic lips” in their nose to produce the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom.

The research also reveals that toothed whales, a group that includes killer whales, sperm whales, dolphins and porpoises, use three vocal registers equivalent to vocal fry (a low creaky voice), a normal speaking voice and falsetto.

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Large industrial companies in the EU will be able to buy gas attained via the European Commission’s joint gas purchasing scheme in an effort to lower costs for companies and consumers in the EU, a top official at the Commission told journalists on Thursday.

Local campaigners succeed in bringing legal challenge after government overruled council’s rejection of project

Plans to drill for gas in the Surrey Hills will be put under judicial review and could be stopped, after local campaigners took the government to the high court.

Ministers previously gave the green light to three years of exploratory drilling at a site near Dunsfold on the edge of the Surrey Hills area of outstanding natural beauty.

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Xpansiv, the owner of the CBL marketplace, could include rating agency grades into the specification of its standardised products for the voluntary carbon market, a company executive told Carbon Pulse on Thursday as the firm gears up for its first carbon credit auction.

The dusky tetraka is a small bird with a distinctive yellow throat that lives on the ground.

The European Commission has extended the scope of its ongoing in-depth inquiry into a German compensation schemes to support two of the biggest emitters in the EU ETS for the early phaseout of their lignite power facilities, the executive announced on Thursday.

The Royal Horticultural Society says demand has risen as shops limit sales of some fresh produce.

A group of fishers searching for tuna were astonished when they encountered a shiver of sharks feeding about 15 miles off the coast of Louisiana last month. Dillon May, who filmed the animals on his camera, recounted that he and his girlfriend Kaitlyn Dix were aboard a friend's fishing boat when they noticed water movement. Initially, they assumed it was a tuna boil, caused by a school of tuna nibbling on food and agitating below the water's surface. However, they were amazed to discover that the disturbance was in fact a frenzy of hungry sharks thrashing in the water

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Louisiana fisherman stumbles across scene of sharks gorging themselves on large pod of fish

Thinking he had spotted a “tuna boil”, and thereby found his own prey, a Louisiana fisherman soon realised he had instead stumbled across a huge group of sharks engaged in a feeding frenzy.

“Never seen anything like it,” Dillon May told Storyful, to whom he provided video of the remarkable scene.

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