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Australia's regulators have been cut off at the knees, forced to ignore the biggest cost of electricity (GHG emissions) in infrastructure projects designed to reduce them.

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Windy conditions in northern Europe provided more than 100% of Denmark’s electricity consumption for two days in a row in May.

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The path to net zero is plagued by claims that LNG is less dirty than coal, but there is practically no evidence to back them up

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Is Australia’s multibillion dollar gas industry going to help the region and the world decarbonise, as its supporters and the industry claims?

Neat soundbites that gas is less dirty than coal, or factoids suggesting liquefied natural gas exports are pushing out those of more polluting coal, are plentiful and slip easily from the tongue, but are almost always bereft of detail.

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Australia’s first wind farms are nearing retirement but "predictive maintenance" could extend their life and save millions, new study finds.

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Industry super fund makes first investment in offshore wind with a 10 per cent stake in Star of the South, Australia's biggest and most advanced project.

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A new £200-million fund has been launched to help British farmers decarbonise.

EU nations have accelerated their shift away from fossil-based power generation by almost a third since the pandemic and war in Ukraine, analysis by environmental think-tanks showed on Wednesday.

Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has set baseline emissions levels for electric companies and the amount of GHG reductions necessary for retail electricity providers, as part of the state’s Clean Energy Targets legislation passed last year.

A Sydney-headquartered offset project developer on Wednesday announced it has acquired an estate in northern California that will be used almost entirely to manage carbon stocks and sequester atmospheric CO2 under the state's compliance offset market. 

An impact investment fund has invested $4 million in a Kenyan-based manufacturer of cookstoves to help accelerate the company’s African expansion.

A Europe-based transportation emissions auditor has been acquired by a Dutch TIC firm, they announced Friday.

Sheriff’s deputies were able to shut the animal in a classroom. There were no casualties

A mountain lion entered a California school Wednesday morning and was safely confined in a classroom, authorities said.

All students and staff at Pescadero high school in the town of Pescadero were safe, the San Mateo county sheriff’s office said in a social media post.

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The UK government is seeking to boost domestic energy output following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Carbon inflation has become the new “normal” for participants in the EU Emission Trading System (ETS) who warn the cap-and-trade market is undermining competitiveness, a survey finds.

‘On what sort of planet does the commonwealth think they don’t need a recovery plan for a Tasmanian devil’, asks Wilderness Society

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Recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of almost 180 threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil, were scrapped by the Coalition in one of Sussan Ley’s final acts as environment minister.

Last year, the Morrison government proposed removing the requirement for a legislated plan for 185 plants, animals and habitats, including several plans that were years overdue.

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Australian Marine Conservation Society says management of reef line fisheries is ‘really admirable’ and will help keep fishing stock ‘environmentally resilient’

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Queensland seafood lovers who want to eat sustainably and can afford a finer fillet have been given the green light to eat seven new species of reef fish.

But they have been advised against buying iconic species, including prawns and barramundi, that have been caught in the wild.

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A plan to sell roughly 250 million EUAs from the Market Stability Reserve would depress EUA prices in the near term, but would lead to an overall tightening of the market later in the current phase, an analyst said on Wednesday.

Deflationists and Tyre Extinguishers both say they want to make SUV ownership impossible in urban areas

A new group of climate activists targeting the owners of sports utility vehicles has set itself up as a friendly rival to the Tyre Extinguishers by deflating the tyres of dozens of vehicles in the suburbs of Glasgow.

In a statement, the group, which calls itself the Deflationists, claimed to have let down the tyres of 50 vehicles in the city’s affluent Newlands area and the neighbouring Shawlands.

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Calls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming

Salmon anglers have called for urgent action to protect Scotland’s wild salmon after the lowest number on record were caught last year.

The latest official data shows that 35,693 Atlantic salmon were caught by anglers on Scottish rivers last year, the lowest number since records began in 1952 and just 75% of the average over the last five years.

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