Nick Xenophon signals support for tax cuts in exchange for emissions intensity scheme.
Australian politics
Senator criticises Coalition for abandoning intensity scheme for electricity once championed by Malcolm Turnbull
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Nick Xenophon says he wants an emissions intensity scheme...
'Taking us backwards': NSW government's environment policies under fire from green groups.
The NSW coalition government is failing on most of its environmental policies, including robbing a key climate fund to bankroll land-clearing and leaving 10...
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Matt Canavan says new station could be built within three years but Josh Frydenberg says any ‘clean coal’ initiative is ‘a long way off’
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Abandoned coal power plant in Lynch, Ky. Coming back on line? (AP Photo/David Goldman)
President Trump's expected executive order tomorrow to begin dismantling the Obama...
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Sunshine state shuns solar as overcast New York basks in clean energy boom.
Solar power
Climate change in the US: the dangers and the solutions
Despite its natural advantages, disincentives mean Florida has few solar panels but the Empire...
Climate change denialists in charge.
By CORAL DAVENPORTMarch 27, 2017As President Trump prepares to unveil an executive order to dismantle President Barack Obama’s climate change policies, Washington’s policy-making posts are filling...
Trump to roll back Clean Power Plan tomorrow.
Vice President Mike Pence visited Foster Supply Inc. on Saturday in Scott Depot, W.Va., where he declared the Obama-era "war on coal" to be...
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By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERGMarch 27, 2017President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that calls on Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,...
New technologies are shrinking wastewater’s hefty carbon footprint.
March 27, 2017 — Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. A 2013 study by the Electric Power Research Institute and Water Research Foundation reported...
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