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The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) on Friday approved a petition by Dominion Energy to voluntarily withdraw its plan to recover RGGI-related costs over the next rate year, with the utility to provide an update on the matter this summer as the state's carbon market membership remains uncertain. 

As climate change pioneers, communities are being called upon to respond to disasters that overwhelm emergency services

I’ve lived near Lismore for 15 years. During the town’s first floods, I took cupcakes to an evacuation centre and asked if they accepted homemade goods.

The answer: “We don’t, put them there, they’ll be great for morning tea.”

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Rainfall not seen over South Australia’s vast desert lake since the 80s has brought it to spectacular life

As an amplified La Niña weather event turned life on the Australian east coast into a flooded misery over recent weeks, it has also played a role in helping bring the vast desert lake near the middle of the continent to life.

Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is about 700km north of Adelaide, covers more than 9,000 sq km – an area roughly equivalent to greater suburban Melbourne – and is the lowest point on the Australian mainland.

Vegetation flourishes in normally dry river channels after uncommonly high local rainfall at Anna Creek Station

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EU plans to label some gas and nuclear power plants as green investments face rejection by lawmakers as war in Ukraine and the resulting scramble away from Russian fossil fuels has drastically altered the bloc's energy outlook, several EU sources have told Carbon Pulse.

It’s been a somewhat wild start to 2022, and with it the received wisdom that that carbon and gas prices move together, is – temporarily? – deceived wisdom.

Canada’s federal 'backstop' CO2 price and British Columbia’s carbon tax increased as scheduled to C$50 ($40) on Friday, as the oil-rich province of Alberta suspended its gasoline tax as crude prices remain elevated.

Hundreds of climate change activists have blocked oil terminals across Britain, with some protesters climbing on top of oil tankers as part of their campaign to force the government to end the country's  reliance on fossil fuels.

Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil blocked refineries around London, Birmingham and Southampton on Friday.

The protests are part of a planned series of protests against UK oil infrastructure. XR said the aim was to cause enough disruption 'to create a tipping point moment'

• Inside Just Stop Oil, the youth climate group blocking UK refineries
  

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EUAs made early gains as natural gas prices fell away in early Friday trading ahead of the publication of verified emissions data for 2021, despite the daily auction clearing at one of the largest ever discounts to the prevailing spot market.

African flamingo, who also goes by No 492, fled the Wichita county zoo in 2005 and was spotted this month by a fishing guide

It’s been 17 years since Pink Floyd made a daring escape from a zoo in Kansas. Now the African flamingo – who also goes by No 492 – has been seen living the life of a fugitive 700 miles to the south, in Texas.

The bird fled the Wichita county zoo in 2005 after keepers failed to clip its wings, the New York Times reported. Its survival in the wild was unlikely – indeed, a buddy who also made it out, No 347, hasn’t been heard from since. But Pink Floyd, as No 492 was nicknamed by Texas officials, was spotted this month by a fishing guide, David Foreman, to his intense surprise.

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The spot price for Chinese carbon allowances remained stable this week as the bullish signal from a draft plan showing the government intends to make tougher-than-expected cuts in allocation was offset by the next compliance deadline being set almost two years into the future.

Verified emissions in the EU ETS rose by 9.1% in 2021, according to incomplete and preliminary like-for-like data published by the European Commission on Friday.

Range typically found in southern and central Europe is expanding north as climate warms

Giant orchids that can reach a metre tall have officially been found growing wild in the UK for the first time, having become established hundreds of miles north of their native range in the Mediterranean.

The “stately” plants were discovered on a grassy slope near Didcot in Oxfordshire by Hamza Nobes, a 29-year-old trainee nurse, who wishes to keep the exact location a secret.

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Taiwan has released a transition plan to meet its 2050 target, leaning heavily on boosting renewables and investing in hydrogen, CCUS, and nature-based solutions with a yet-to-be decided carbon price playing a supporting role.

The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including a fluffy egret chick, escaped ostriches and migrating crabs

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Activists climb on tankers and glue themselves to roads around London, Birmingham and Southampton

Hundreds of environmental protesters have blocked seven oil terminals across the country as part of a campaign to paralyse the UK’s fossil fuel infrastructure.

Early on Friday, supporters of Just Stop Oil began blockades at oil refineries around London, Birmingham and Southampton by climbing on top of tankers and gluing themselves to road surfaces.

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Some 440 companies, including most major names in the power, manufacturing, mining, and finance industries, have agreed to join Japan’s voluntary carbon emissions trading market.

The ISA, obliged to frame industry rules by July 2023, is said to lack transparency and caution in preventing exploitation of the seabed

The UN-affiliated organisation that oversees deep-sea mining, a controversial new industry, has been accused of failings of transparency after an independent body responsible for reporting on negotiations was kicked out.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is meeting this week at its council headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica, to develop regulations for the fledgling industry. But it emerged this week that Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), a division of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which has covered previous ISA negotiations, had not had its contract renewed.

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Only days after setting a record of 25.47% for efficiency of its p-type HJT cells, Longi has announced a new record of 25.40% for its indium-free HJT cells.

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Qantas CEO says electric powered long-haul aircraft still “several decades” from becoming a reality, as the airline focuses on sustainable fuels and carbon offsets.

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Undeterred by senate slap down, Angus Taylor has made yet another, last gasp attempt to change the investment remit of ARENA.

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