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Federal government anti-dumping ruling expected to boost price of installing solar in Australia – another small, but unwanted, blow amid stop-start state policies.

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Labor reveals it will scrap Coalition's "Climate Solutions Fund" and redirect funds to clean energy initiatives.

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South Korea on Friday announced it has chosen two government-owned policy banks to play the role as market makers in the nation’s emissions trading scheme in a bid to boost market liquidity.

ESCO Pacific plans to build a 100MW solar and battery power station near West Wyalong have won approval from the state government.

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W.A. government to install 4MW of solar across six remote indigenous communities as part of an $11.6m budget plan to slash use of heavy-polluting – heavily subsidised – diesel fuel.

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Third stage of Crookwell wind farm, in heart of energy minister Angus Taylor's electorate, rejected by NSW Planning after opposition from local Landscape Guardian groups.

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Blue Origins claims that the lunar lander will be able to take humans to the Moon's south pole by 2024.

Murdoch media and the Coalition have plunged the depth of stupidity in their campaign against EVs, but the prize goes for the claim that Tesla EV charging is already causing blackouts.

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The Amazon is at risk from mining in French Guiana and it is the French Foreign Legion's job to protect it.

The geese have exploded in numbers, becoming a menace to farmers and leaving a trail of goose poo on local ovals, golf courses, and even around the town of Cowes.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices dipped on the secondary market after the May auction bid guarantee deadline passed last week, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) saw an incremental price uptick amid increased buying.

Secondary market activity in the northeast US RGGI ETS declined during the first quarter of 2019 as the largest firms gained a bigger share of net short and long positions, according to a report published Thursday.

Knowing that air pollution is affecting livestock may prompt farmers to help clean our air

Thousands of scientific papers tell us that air pollution harms our health and shortens our lives, but what about effects on other animals? Thirteen prize cattle at the Smithfield agricultural show were among the first victims of London’s coal-induced smog in 1952, and when industrial smog engulfed Belgium’s Meuse Valley in 1911 and again in 1930, farmers tried vainly to save their herds by driving them up hillsides above the pollution.

In the Netherlands, scientists have found possible links between modern air pollution and deaths of young cattle, mainly in summer when the animals graze outside. In Belgium, researchers examined the (non-slaughterhouse) deaths of 87,108 adult dairy cows. They compared air pollution when each one died with times when the cow was well. Their results also point to cattle being vulnerable to air pollution.

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Current environment laws are manifestly failing Australian animals. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Desley Whisson, Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Mike Weston, Associate Professor, Deakin University Raylene Cooke, Associate Professor, Deakin University Tim Doherty, Alfred Deakin Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s international reputation depends on rejecting the use of Kyoto carry-over. More importantly, so does our climate. Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University Tim Baxter, Fellow - Melbourne Law School; Associate - Australian-German Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Invasive species are the biggest single threat to Australian plants and animals. Andy Sheppard, Research Director CSIRO Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO Linda Broadhurst, Director, Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

It's hard to say exactly how many koalas are in the wild, but there's no doubt they're in serious trouble. Christine Adams-Hosking, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Social services statement backs Labor’s emissions reduction target as a minimum

Action on climate change should make polluters pay and include compensation for people on low incomes, according to the social services sector.

The Australian Council of Social Services and others have called for “at least” a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 coupled with regular indexation of the energy supplement to compensate welfare recipients.

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Enel’s EU ETS-regulated power output fell 16% in Q1 2019 compared to a year earlier, shrinking the company's EUA requirement even as it kept its hedging roughly steady, according to quarterly results released late Wednesday.