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US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades

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Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact.

This is the result of a new peer-review study published in the journal Nature that sought to establish a method that would allow courts to quantify the economic loss caused by fossil fuel producers for one kind of climate impact – extreme heat.

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Australian utility proposes up to 250 megawatt expansion to existing gas-fired power plant near Perth that will emit 196,000 tonnes of CO2 a year for 30 years.

The post Australia’s largest carbon emitter proposes big expansion to WA gas power plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia has said no to Trumpism, no to nuclear and no to a vision of a country in perpetual fear. A triumphant Labor government must now rise to the occasion.

The post Australia lays out red carpet for rapid green energy transition. Can Labor seize the moment? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Doctors for the Environment Australia says offshore oil and gas regulator accepted claims by Woodside that gas displaces coal despite its CEO admitting that claim cannot be proven.

The post Doctors say regulator engaged in “box ticking” exercise with Scarborough gas approval appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The coalition's nuclear power plan "bombed at the ballot" and is now off the table, climate action and renewable energy groups say.

The post Coalition power plan “nuked” at poll: climate groups appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carney’s first and perhaps most critical political maneuver after being elected leader was tackling climate action without provoking voter backlash.

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The Australian Labor government has been returned office in a decisive victory at the polls on Saturday, ensuring continuation of current climate and carbon policies, including the reformed Safeguard Mechanism.

Scientists hope to make a universal antivenom from the extraordinary blood of a man exposed to snake venom for decades.

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Investors used California Carbon Allowance (CCA) price weakness to rebuild V25 exposure at the expense of longer dated contracts, while reducing RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings, under the unresolved spectre of potential federal legal action against US state-led ETS programmes and ongoing regulatory delays, data published Friday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed.

The Connecticut House of Representatives advanced an amended version of a bill that aims to establish a net zero emissions by 2050 target.

An industrial gas company has delayed the startup of its $8 billion blue hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the US until it is able to divest certain elements of the effort.

Industrial companies have a significant opportunity to tap into multi-billion dollar carbon removal (CDR) market by embedding the practice into their operations, said a report released by a US-based think tank Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump wants to slash over $15 billion in funding for emissions reduction projects, which could further dampen domestic carbon management efforts and global multilateral climate initiatives should Congress ratify his proposal.

Ahead of next week’s launch of allowance futures for the EU’s new ETS2 carbon market, analysts polled by Carbon Pulse are cautiously bullish on prices but warn of significant uncertainty – both in terms of liquidity and regulatory risk.

A group of US Republican lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to extend the federal biodiesel blender’s tax credit for two years.

The third time could be the charm for a US bill aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the agriculture sector, as house representatives look to build momentum ahead of potentially damaging anti-climate farming legislation incoming this fall.

A startup working at the intersection of agriculture and climate change mitigation is advancing a methane-reducing vaccine for livestock, positioning it as a globally scalable tool for cutting GHG emissions.

Switzerland has signed a bilateral carbon trade agreement with Kenya, it was announced Friday.

Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns

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On a stormy Friday night in Samford, in Brisbane’s north-west, more than 200 people attended a meeting keen to learn how they could stop the government from eradicating a dangerous pest.

A two-sided sheet of paper placed on each seat advised residents how to legally obstruct a biosecurity officer from the National Fire Ant Eradication Program.

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