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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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Ohio woman, 25, was tossed 10ft in air after getting close to female bison on boardwalk

An Ohio woman was gored by a bison after approaching the animal while visiting Yellowstone national park in Wyoming, park officials said on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old was visiting the national park from Grove City, Ohio, about 20 minutes outside Columbus.

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Ohio woman, 25, was gored and tossed 10ft in air after getting close to female bison on boardwalk

An Ohio woman was killed by a bison after approaching the animal while visiting Yellowstone national park in Wyoming, park officials said on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old woman was visiting the national park from Grove City, Ohio, about 20 minutes outside Columbus.

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It’s been a decade since I got on a plane, but global warming and chaotic airports mean it has been easy to stay on the ground

I haven’t been on a plane for a decade – since 2012, which would be nice to look back on as a halcyon time, if only to run screaming from the blazing fuselage of the present for a second. But the truth is, Boris Johnson was already mayor of London, and it was one of the 10 warmest years on record. That September, the Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest extent recorded. The climate emergency was happening. It just hadn’t been declared yet.

That summer of 2012, also on record as the last time I felt strange stirrings known as national pride, I watched the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in the basement of a Krakow bar. Four months later, days after discovering I was pregnant with my first child, I took two long-haul flights and a sea plane to a new luxury resort in the most undiscovered part of the Maldives. For four nights. On a press trip.

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Rewilding advocates say decision by royal estates is ‘an appallingly undemocratic affront to our futures’

The duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, two of the royal family’s largest portfolios of land, have snubbed tree campaigners who are calling for the royals to rewild their estates.

Rewilding advocates at the campaign group Wild Card have been meeting for months with the crown estate, which manages most of the royal land and pays the revenue into the Treasury. They say relations have been “really positive”.

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EUAs posted modest gains in another thinly-traded session on Wednesday morning, as traders focused on events in Brussels where lawmakers were setting out positions ahead of next week's full Parliament vote on the EU ETS reform package.

Any move to lower the emissions baseline for major emitters participating in Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism will drive investment in hydrogen and other low carbon technologies, the chair of the country’s Clean Energy Regulator said at a conference on Wednesday.

Seaweed could help feed world and reduce climate crisis impact, Vincent Doumeizel tells Hay festival

Seaweed could help feed the world and reduce the impact of the climate emergency, a UN adviser on food has suggested.

Speaking at the Hay festival in Wales, Vincent Doumeizel suggested that the term “sea forest”, which is how seaweed is referred to in Norway, would be more appropriate, “because we would understand that we need to protect and preserve them as we do with all the land forests”.

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Carbon credit trade is set to increase 30-40-fold by 2035, in turn driving their price as high as $150/tonne by the middle of the next decade, according to a report released Wednesday modelling global market scenarios consistent with meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.