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ETS-covered coal and gas power generated by UK utility Drax fell by more than 75% year on year as the firm ended all commercial coal operations and completed the sale of its gas assets, the company announced in full-year results on Thursday.  

Greens to pitch a ten-year job guarantee for coal workers and funding support for new clean energy ventures under $19B industry transition plan.

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Firm makes apparent concession to boycott that began over untreated discharges into coastal waters

Southern Water is offering discounts on bills to some people engaged in a non-payment protest campaign over raw sewage discharges, in an apparent concession to the boycott.

The non-payment protest, which was backed by Sir Bob Geldof, began because of anger at the level of untreated sewage discharged into coastal waters.

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Court to hear West Virginia case that takes aim at EPA’s ability to issue strict rules to curb pollution from fossil fuel power stations

Joe Biden’s faltering effort to tackle the climate crisis faces a further, potentially devastating, blow on Monday in a supreme court case that experts warn could severely restrict any future US government attempt to limit planet-heating emissions.

The court has agreed to hear a case brought by West Virginia, supported by 18 other Republican-led states, that takes aim at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to issue strict regulations to curb pollution from fossil fuel-fired power stations.

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New coal plant construction projects in China rose to a five-year high last year, tripling numbers in the rest of the world combined, while new project approvals have picked up pace in the first few weeks of 2022, according to a report released Thursday.

European carbon prices plunged as much as 7.5% in early trading on Thursday, while front-month TTF prices were up more than 40% at one point as Russian forces crossed into Ukrainian territory and attacks were reported on Ukrainian military targets across the country.

Around one-third of Australian fossil fuel projects assessed by an environmental group were found to be emitting more greenhouse gases than was estimated at the time of their approval by regulators, casting doubt on the efficacy of instruments such as the Safeguard Mechanism to curb carbon pollution, a study released on Thursday has found.

Elsevier’s work with fossil fuel companies ‘drags us towards disaster’, climate researcher says

Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company consults with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian can reveal.

Elsevier, a Dutch company behind many renowned peer-reviewed scientific journals, including The Lancet and Global Environmental Change, is also one of the top publishers of books aimed at expanding fossil fuel production.

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There's no denying that electric vehicles are what most of us will be driving in the near-future. Countries around the world have pledged to phase out the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles over the next few decades, in an effort to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. But with lingering questions over the mining of rare metals, battery manufacturing and electricity consumption, Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates whether electric vehicles are as green as we've been led to believe

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Up to 45% of Barataria Bay’s dolphins died after 2010. Now they face the threat of new drilling and a Mississippi River scheme

Nearly 80% of dolphins exposed to oil in the Deepwater Horizon disaster remain badly affected nearly 12 years later, according to new research, even as the Biden administration continues to approve leases for oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists looked at the long-term impact of the oil spill on bottlenose dolphins living in Barataria Bay, near New Orleans.

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Net zero advisers says refusing new licences would signal green ambition, but final decision must be for ministers

The prospects for an expansion of oil and gas drilling in the North Sea have cleared a major hurdle, as the Committee on Climate Change said “stringent tests” must be applied to any new exploration licences but stopped short of saying they could not be issued.

New drilling would not reduce energy bills for UK consumers, the committee found, and its chair, former Conservative environment secretary Lord Deben, said he would “favour” a moratorium on North Sea exploration.

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One of the world's largest metallurgical coal ports, the Dalrymple Bay Terminal in Queensland, to prepare plans for pivot to green hydrogen.

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The plan would address failures in the National Electricity Market, and would see a more orderly transformation process from coal to clean energy. Daniel J Cass, Research Affiliate, The University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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The government's climate change advisers say new oil and gas in the North Sea would not lower bills.

UK government to fund demonstration of a hydrogen energy storage technology originally invented at UNSW.

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New research finds 74% of land managers who reported releasing a powerful biocontrol release it during the peak rabbit breeding period. This can lead to rabbit populations actually increasing. Pat Taggart, Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A landmark initiative to ensure clean, affordable, and dependable energy for all has been launched this week, laying the groundwork for a people-centred energy system.

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Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes explains why buying AGL will be fastest, cheapest, smartest and safest way to transition from coal to renewables.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Mike Cannon-Brookes and closing coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thomas Bell from Sunman Energy explains their glass free solar technology, and how and why it can grow the solar pie.

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