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The US EPA made an unannounced and fundamental change to its methodology used to grant compliance waivers under the federal Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that allowed for an increasing number of companies to receive exemptions to the biofuels credit market, a new court filing alleges.

Baseload power is already under threat in Australia, with new data showing the scale of the transition in the NEM, and how radically different the supply mix will look in the decades ahead.

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Overwhelming support for Melbourne to declare a climate emergency will be a shock to those climate advocacy organisations that have steadfastly refused to use such language.

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A surge in buying after the February WCI auction spurred higher California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices this week, while RGGI allowances (RGAs) fell by double-digits ahead of the programme's first quarterly sale of the year.

The Dutch government will close one of the country's five coal-fired power plants next year - four years earlier than originally planned - to help reach its court-enforced deeper climate goals, broadcaster RTL reported on Thursday.

Ten US companies and organisations have formed a consortium to advance a voluntary market programme for promoting soil carbon sequestration and water conservation in agriculture, with more developments underway to scale up nationally in the next few years.

EUAs surged back above €23 late on Thursday to eye their recent highs, dragging up power prices despite falls across other financial markets on weak ECB economic forecasts.

With heatwaves, droughts and fires all on the rise, the federal government is urged to merge its separate strategies on disaster resilience and climate readiness. Robert Glasser, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

How Elon Musk's Crew Dragon spaceship goes to, and returns from, the International Space Station.

Civil War-era fortifications have been discovered just below the prison's recreation yard, a study shows.

Temperate grasslands are home to diverse flora and fauna but they are in decline because of land clearing and our lack of concern

For most people, the south-eastern grasslands look like wastelands, according to the environmental psychologist Kathryn Williams from the University of Melbourne.

“They see an empty paddock that’s potential for a car park or a shopping centre or a housing development,” she says.

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Swiss lawmakers in both legislative chambers have approved the country’s carbon market link to the EU ETS, advancing the bill to a final vote later this month that will also likely approve a price floor for the small scheme.

The COP25 UN climate conference in Chile will be held this December, the international organisation confirmed on Thursday, reversing an initial decision by the host nation to push the next annual negotiation round to Jan. 2020.

Meet Yoda, one of 103 new insect species discovered in remote forests on the island of Sulawesi.

The sheer volume of ice covering Greenland means its fate has global repercussions.

Spring Uprising festival in Bristol will feature bands and civil disobedience instruction

The woman behind the UK’s first female-only festival is setting up a climate activism training camp to instruct hundreds of young people in civil disobedience before a series of environmental protests planned for the coming weeks.

Tiana Jacout is putting on the Spring Uprising festival in Bristol this month for people taking part in the ongoing school strikes and the Extinction Rebellion protests planned for 15 April.

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South Korea’s environment ministry has halved the allowance volume each ETS participant can bid for at next week’s sale, a move designed to allow more buyers to bid successfully.

Western Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority (EA) on Thursday recommended that new projects emitting more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2e a year should be required to offset their emissions using high-quality carbon credits.

The world-famous lab cuts ties with a scientist who said women were less able at physics than men.

Can nature, rivers, mountains or animals, have legal rights - just like people? Legal rights will change the relationship we have with nature and that’s crucial to really protect the environment.