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If further confirmation was needed that the Peter Dutton-led Coalition would take Australia aggressively backwards on dealing with the climate crisis, his final election costings released on Thursday tell the story in black and white.

The Liberal and National parties plan to gut programs designed to cut emissions and help create green industries to give the country an industrial future as demand for fossil fuels falls. They also plan to ignore advice that Australian nature is in poor and deteriorating health and strip back already limited funding for environment programs.

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Australian head of Spanish renewables giant says western NSW and Queensland could host wind projects at an "offshore scale," but for a much lower "onshore price."

The post Wind can deliver “offshore scale” projects for “onshore price” in inland Australia, Spanish giant says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

In a Queensland river where natural gas seeps up through the water, many living creatures have come to depend on it for their carbon. Paul McInerney, Senior Research Scientist in Ecosystem Ecology, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Green group says Bowen Basin coal mine expansion would overwhelm the state’s emissions reduction efforts and make it "almost impossible" to meet climate targets.

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South Australia scraps its Hydrogen Power office after cancelling its proposed green hydrogen power plant and redirecting funds for the rescue of the Whyalla steelworks.

The post South Australia disbands Hydrogen Power office as Whyalla project officially cancelled appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Thursday released the first round of its draft report on no-cost allocations for Emissions Intensive, Trade Exposed Industries (EITEs), detailing initial considerations regarding best practices for avoiding leakage and methods to develop GHG benchmarks.

A legal expert noted several avenues of action that the US Attorney General could take against California’s carbon market, but described them as “quite weak”, in a meeting with the state’s carbon market watchdog Thursday.

Nash Core was travelling through the coastal town of Ardrossan in South Australia with his wife and sons when he came across three men trying to rescue a great white shark stranded in shallow water. Core used his drone to shoot video of the writhing shark before he and son Parker, 11, decided to help the trio who were struggling to move the shark into deeper water

• ‘My heart’s pounding’: Australians wade into ocean to save great white shark stranded in shallow water

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Analysis has shown key sectors of Australia’s economy are getting behind the government’s climate policies, specifically its Future Made in Australia (FMIA) initiative.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) hovered within a narrow range over the week faced with unresolved risks to the state’s ETS from the threat of potential federal action, and awaiting legislative reauthorisation ahead of the upcoming second quarterly permit sale, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) extended higher in thin trade.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed lawsuits against Vermont, New York, Michigan, and Hawaii in federal courts this week, targeting state efforts to seek damages from fossil fuel companies from alleged climate harms.

Integrating carbon markets within the Pacific Alliance bloc of countries could support market growth by lowering barriers to entry and attracting finance, though a single market might be too idealistic, according to speakers at the Colombia Carbon Forum in Bogota last week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s win will have “tremendous” impacts on the future of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in Canada, experts said Wednesday.

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Truck manufacturers and industry groups asked Oregon regulators on Wednesday to delay implementation of the proposed Advanced Clean Trucks rule until 2027, following similar decisions in two other states in the last month.

Trump and Musk have likely done Labor a favour, and caused the Dutton vote to implode. A minority government with Teals and Greens would be preferable.

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Coalition's final campaign act perfectly summarises their true anti-climate, pro fossil fuel colours. Here's hoping voters have paid attention.

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A Brazilian bank, a Sao Paulo-based developer, and a national agricultural cooperative on Wednesday announced an agreement targeting a 50,000-hectare afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) project in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest regions.

US House Republicans are looking to reign in the influence proxy advisory firms have over corporate governance by creating new restrictions and reporting standards over proxy voting, which the lawmakers say is being used to inject politicised agendas into the shareholding voting process.

Colorado regulators running the state’s forthcoming carbon trading system released an update on Thursday regarding the first annual auction of GHG credits for the programme in June.