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An investigation into whether electricity networks and regulated gas pipelines are gouging consumers to cover their corporate tax liabilities will be carried out the Australian Energy Regulator.

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The largest utility in Virginia plans on cutting output at or shutting its biomass-powered facilities, it has announced, as the US state remains undecided how it will treat the renewable energy source in its planned cap-and-trade scheme modelled after RGGI.

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The growth in trade between developing countries in the first decade of the 21st century, fuelled by the offshoring of manufacturing to lower-wage economies, has led to a surge in emissions that threatens the climate goals of the Paris Agreement, according to a study released on Monday.

The land clearing debate continues in farming communities across Queensland in the wake of the Labor Government's decision to pass laws banning the broad scale clearing of remnant vegetation.

EU carbon prices clawed back early losses to finish flat on Monday after the market struggled to absorb the day’s auction amid a return to normal sale supply following last week’s scarce offering.

Nova Scotia has joined the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), it announced on Monday, as the province advances the development of its cap-and-trade system with a view to launching it early next year.

Frozen food is the latest industry millennials have been credited with saving. But it’s too late for gum, soap and thongs

Frozen food is super hot right now. According to David Palmer, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, sales volumes have grown for the first time in five years. And millennials are largely responsible for this, spending 9% more per shopping trip for frozen foods last year than other groups, according to Reuters.

So why are millennials, a supposedly foodie generation, buying so many frozen meals? Well, largely because it’s convenient. “The average millennial doesn’t have time to make a full meal with fresh meat and produce, a Euromonitor analyst explained. “More and more they’re seeing these products as viable options.”

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Climate Council says capacity of firms to generate solar power has doubled in less than two years

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Almost half of Australia’s large businesses are actively transitioning to cheaper renewable energy, including many going off the grid by building their own generators and battery storage, as power bills threaten their bottom line.

A new report by the Climate Council details the increased speed of a business-led transition to renewables as power bills have increased.

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Oil extraction in Alaskan wilderness area would be an ‘irresponsible business decision’, trillion-dollar investors say

Investors managing more than $2.5tn have warned oil firms and banks to shun moves by the US president, Donald Trump, to open the Arctic national wildlife refuge (ANWR) to drilling.

Companies extracting oil and gas from the wilderness area in Alaska would face “enormous reputational risk and public backlash”, the investors say in a letter sent on Monday to 100 fossil fuel companies and the banks that finance them.

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In this role you will be part of our Portfolio Management team, responsible for overseeing and developing business for the sales of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).

In this role you will be part of our Portfolio Management team, responsible for overseeing and developing business for the sales of carbon credits and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).

Rwanda’s plastic bag ban | Sugar in recipes | School funding | Autocorrect | Tessa Jowell

While “other East African nations are considering following suit” (Nairobi feels the force of world’s most draconian plastic bag ban, 26 April), Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008. Plastic bags can trap pools of water which host mosquitos so their ban helps fight malaria.
Alex Morton
London

• In Saturday’s Feast Ottolenghi’s tamarind recipes all call for added sugar, honey or syrup. Meera Sodha adds two tablespoons of palm sugar to her aubergines. My old-fashioned Indian recipe books don’t add sugar at all. Even the Anna Jones lettuce recipes advise a method to make them “sweet”. Is this the way to address an obese nation?
Deborah van der Beek
Chippenham, Wiltshire

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London warns Brussels that it is prepared to block Galileo technologies from leaving the UK.

Production begins from the first turbines at 200MW wind farm near Broken Hill.

We asked you to tell us about the time you crossed from one side of the debate to the other

I first thought it was fake as I used to watch Fox News with my family. In 2015 I met my partner Stephen who knew that the facts of climate change couldn’t be ignored. He took it upon himself to try to convince me. We started watching documentaries on the subject on Netflix. The first documentary that caught my attention was Cowspiracy directed by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn. This documentary really hit home and I even wrote an essay on it. Then came What the Health by the same directors. After we watched the movie Stephen and I turned to an all plant-based diet. We have our ups and downs on staying true to our new lifestyle change, but we always keep in mind that for every burger we don’t eat that is 660 gallons of water that we are saving for others in need. I was lucky enough that Stephen took the time and saw that if I could see the issues I would see that the facts are true.

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Douglas Domenech held meetings with Texas Public Policy Foundation, which was involved in suing the department

As allegations of ethics violations mount at the US Environmental Protection Agency, new evidence is raising ethics concerns about key Trump-administration appointees at the interior department.

Records reviewed by the Guardian and Pacific Standard show that a high-level interior official, Douglas Domenech, held meetings with a previous employer, the Koch-linked Texas Public Policy Foundation, while it was involved in legal action against the department.

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