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The week in wildlife – in pictures
The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a giant stingray, a lost tortoise and hungry monkeys
Continue reading...Vietnam signs carbon market MoU with US bank
Australian Market Roundup: Trading activity erupts ahead of assumed Labor victory
Australian voters deserve a ministers’ debate on climate and energy. They won’t get one
Given the world is in the midst of a major climate crisis, Australian voters deserved a climate ministers' debate.
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Direct switch from coal to renewables cheaper than going over gas “bridge”
New analysis shows it is cheaper to switch from coal-fired generation to renewables than to move from coal to gas as a bridge to renewables.
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NSW energy roadmap at risk of shutting out big battery benefits
Will battery storage get a gig in the NSW energy roadmap? It will all boil down to how a single clause in the legislation is interpreted.
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Taylor quietly tips $3m into another brown coal to hydrogen venture
More funding quietly tipped into brown coal to hydrogen projects, as the Coalition's election fossil hydrogen subsides top $400 million.
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Could we learn to love slugs and snails in our gardens?
Toucan Protocol moves to block on-chain access for some ‘zombie credits’
Carbon Pulse hires its way to record reporter headcount, doubles article output
Fortescue looks to turn US coal mine into huge green hydrogen hub
Fortescue proposes to turn Washington state's last coal mine and coal generator into a major green hydrogen facility.
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Thousands sign up to count plastic waste for a week
Rare UK seabirds put at risk by ‘alarming loophole’, say campaigners
Ministers accused of ‘giving up’ on birds as they explore exemptions from duty to protect the animals
The government has given itself an “alarming loophole” to avoid protecting seabirds including puffins and gannets, a leaked document shows.
Campaigners have accused ministers of “giving up” on the UK’s seabirds as they plan to apply for an exemption to a legal duty to protect the rare species.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Thursday May 12, 2022
Ratings firms puts REDD project “on watch” after report questioning legitimacy
One small blip of demand response, one big leap to smart green grid
First official trades in "nega-watts" - dialling down demand at times of high prices - points to a smarter future for the grid.
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NA Markets: Financial markets weigh on CCAs to negate Scoping Plan bump, RGGI drops below CCR
South African startup to fund 100 MW in renewables projects with tokenised carbon credits
US oil refineries spewing cancer-causing benzene into communities, report finds
Analysis shows alarming level of benzene at fence-line of facilities in Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Indiana and US Virgin Islands
A dozen US oil refineries last year exceeded the federal limit on average benzene emissions.
Among the 12 refineries that emitted above the maximum level for benzene, five were in Texas, four in Louisiana, and one each in Pennsylvania, Indiana and the US Virgin Islands, a new analysis by the Environmental Integrity Project revealed on Thursday.
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