Coal ash: 'Why in the world would we be importing it?'
Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies...
Tony Abbott backs calls to keep Hazelwood power plant open.
Energy
Former prime minister joins debate as Australian Industry Group says it is not confident the risks to the country’s energy grid are being managed
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The Adani mine is this generation's Franklin River. People power can stop it.
Adani Group
Opinion
Bob Brown
This is the environmental issue of our times and the Great Barrier Reef is at stake. But people standing up for what...
Court tosses sweeping suit against FERC.
A federal court yesterday rejected an ambitious lawsuit from environmentalists who say federal regulators are biased toward approving natural gas pipelines.The U.S. District Court...
Malcolm Turnbull rejects Tony Abbott's call for subsidy to keep Hazelwood open.
Calls for an extraordinary government intervention to keep the ailing Hazelwood coal power plant open have been rejected by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said its...
The CommBank contradiction: Support for cricket and fossil fuels.
Guardian sustainable business
Innovations in renewables
David Ritter
Extreme heat endangers cricketers yet the bank is Australia’s most significant private investor in climate-change-inducing fossil fuels
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‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming.
Climate change
A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap...
Let there be light: Germans switch on 'largest artificial sun.'
Energy research
Scientists hope experiment, which can generate temperatures of around 3,500C, will help to develop carbon-neutral fuel
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