ABC News

A meeting of the Coalition party room has agreed to ditch the Clean Energy Target (CET).

News.com.au

THE government has decided to spurn a key idea put forth by Australia’s chief scientist and take a different tact with its new energy policy.

Ecogeneration

The Federal Government’s decision to walk away from a Clean Energy Target (CET) is likely to result in a substantial slowdown in new clean energy investment, meaning power prices will keep rising and voters will continue switching off, the Clean Energy Council said today.

ABC Rural

The National Farmers Federation says early details of the Federal Government's new energy plan, the National Energy Guarantee, are "promising" and has the ability to address soaring power bills in the agriculture sector.

Yahoo!7 News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a directive to his agency on Monday seeking to end the practice of settling lawsuits with environmental groups behind closed doors, saying the groups have had too much influence on regulation.

The Sydney Morning Herald

One of the world's largest pension funds will vote with activists against Origin's board over the company's approach to climate change risk disclosure at its looming annual meeting.

Logistics & Materials Handling

Global supply-chain logistics company Brambles, which operates primarily through the CHEP and IFCO brands, has published its Sustainability Review for the 2017 Financial Year.

Yahoo!7 News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rabobank NA [RABOVR.UL] is launching with the United Nations $1 billion in financing for farmers to transition to more sustainable practices as food companies and consumers are demanding more supply chain transparency.

The Australian

After reading the full text of what The Australian’s leading article called Tony Abbott’s “provocative” London speech, in my considered opinion it is one of the most outstanding speeches in years by any Australian politician.

The Newcastle Herald

It’s no secret that the state government has targeted the Lower Hunter as a major population growth centre: no fewer than five planning strategies since 2003 clearly show this. Despite initial promises of sustainable and balanced growth, each strategy has increasingly tipped the scales in favour of the development industry, to the stage now where it is totally unbalanced, making almost inevitable the loss of large parts of our unique natural environment, along with our enviable lifestyle.

The Australian

There are enough complexities and a sufficient array of statistics around our National Electricity Market for special interests, activists, politicians and commentators to find something or other to support any argument. Yet, as the government prepares to finalise and announce its new climate and energy policy, there are some unambiguous facts that ought to be front and centre.

The Australian

Malcolm Turnbull has embarked on selling his new energy policy even as the Coalition Parliamentary party broke from endorsing the Cabinet compromise on greenhouse gas emissions and rising electricity costs.

Yahoo!7 News

DETROIT (Reuters) - In an auto industry race to develop electric vehicle batteries that charge faster and are cheaper and safer than lithium-ion cells, startup Zap&Go will do all that with its carbon-ion alternative 'within a few years', a company executive said.

Ecogeneration

As part of Victoria’s drive to attract more renewable energy resources to the area, the Victorian government has awarded a $133 million contract to UGL, a subsidiary of the engineering and construction brand CIMIC.

Reneweconomy

With China, India, Norway, UK, France and California planning to ban manufacture and sales of new internal combustion engine cars, and electric vehicles (EV) on the rise, will a solar roof become popular add-on option for plug in EV’s, and how many kilometres a day can they provide?

The Sydney Morning Herald

Bong Su, Melbourne Zoo's beloved bull elephant, is dead. His death is a tragedy: zoo veterinarians euthanised him after an assessment that the pain he felt from "arthritis" could not be relieved. While this may be the case, Bong Su's pain was not natural. It was due to the conditions in which he was kept for many years at Melbourne Zoo. In reality, Bong Su should have been in his prime.

Cosmos

Fruit bat conservation needs special care on an island where the animals are used as money. Andrew Masterson reports.

ABC News

Volunteers are concerned one of the world's rarest birds is at risk of being wiped out due to a lack of funding from state and federal governments.

Cosmos

Baltic Sea study implicates invertebrates as big emitters. Andrew Masterson reports.

ABC News

Native fish populations in the Murray-Darling Basin have been in decline since European settlement, but things are looking up for three native species.

The Conversation

Thunderstorms are set to become more intense throughout the tropics and subtropics this century as a result of climate change, according to new research.

Yahoo!7 News

OSLO (Reuters) - Planting forests and other activities that harness the power of nature could play a major role in limiting global warming under the 2015 Paris agreement, an international study showed on Monday.

News.com.au

A RED sun phenomenon has been spotted in the sky over parts of the UK overnight as Hurricane Ophelia claimed three lives with powerful 130km winds.

9 News

Late season wildfires that broke out over the weekend in Portugal have killed at least 35 people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making 2017 by far the deadliest year on record for forest blazes in the country.

The Conversation

What substances in wildfire smoke are most dangerous to human health? What kinds of impacts can they have?

ABC News

The Tasmanian Government's plan to allow 4WD access to tracks on the west coast is in disarray and unlikely to be approved before next year's state election.

The West Australian

A new recycling plant to turn treated sewage into drinking water will be built for $262 million after the State Government moved to shore up Perth’s scheme supplies.

Yahoo!7 News

(Reuters Health) - Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy have babies with greater signs of “aging” in their cells when they’re born compared to babies whose mothers breathed cleaner air, a new study finds.

The Age

Strict new rules to curb the dumping of yellow oBikes on Melbourne's streets are coming into force, with three councils cracking down on the share bike operator.

3AW

The Environment Protection Authority is on a crash course with oBikes over its management of vandalism.

Inside Waste

Wyndham City Council will extend its landfill operations on Wests Road, Werribee, following a grants work approval by the Victorian EPA.

The Courier Mail

A SEARCH and rescue operation is underway for the crew of a trawler which overturned in heavy seas off central Queensland last night.

ABC News

A Clean Energy Target recommended by Australia's Chief Scientist will not be adopted, with the Federal Government instead proposing a new plan to bring down electricity prices.

ABC News

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's trusted adviser and former chief of staff Drew Clarke will take a key role stopping electricity rip-offs of Australians, the ABC can reveal.

ABC News

If the Government is looking for an excuse to ditch the Clean Energy Target, it will struggle to find one in the preliminary report of the competition watchdog's electricity pricing inquiry.

Yahoo!7 News

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will have to launch more ambitious renewable energy and non-fossil fuel targets and ramp up efforts to enforce them to avoid missing global climate accord requirements, two government think tanks said on Monday.

Reneweconomy

Perhaps because of the need to make leadership look good in front of the five yearly leadership congress, China’s “deindustrialization, cleaner air, decarbonization efforts” have taken a step backwards in 2017.

Yahoo!7 News

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis implicitly criticized the United States on Monday for pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, praising it as a means to control the devastating effects of global warming.

The Daily Telegraph

GREENPEACE activists have delivered more than 100 bags of coal to the doorstep of the Commonwealth Bank’s Sydney headquarters as they protest its refusal to rule out coal financing.

The Sydney Morning Herald

If there is one subject that divides energy producers it's the question of when oil demand will peak.

The Fifth Estate

If your company was offered a mega-profitable commission on Adani’s Carmichael coal mine* in Queensland would you turn it down due to the environmental damage it will cause, or would you take the cash?

Independent Australia

As Tony Abbott tells the world climate change action is like "trying to appease volcano gods", far from proving climate science wrong, leading climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton has proved it to be extremely accurate, finds Steve Bishop.

Reneweconomy

A major new study has underlined the crucial role played by rooftop solar in moderating energy prices: without it, the study says, the aggregate cost of electricity would have been several billion dollars higher over the past year.

Reneweconomy

Remember when we used to talk about gas as the “transition fuel” to a low carbon energy future?

Reneweconomy

The former head of Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Oliver Yates, is teaming up with the former ACT climate and energy minister Simon Corbell in a new venture called the Clean Energy Derivatives Corporation, which is set to emerge as a major new player in renewable energy markets.

Energy Matters

A solar carpark at the University of South Queensland (USQ) has been recognised at the 2017 Solar Design and Installation Awards.

Reneweconomy

The 2017 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge came to a close last Friday, but the race to build the world’s first commercial, road-registered, consumer friendly solar passenger vehicles is only just gearing up. And Australia is looking very competitive.

The Herald Sun

THE risk of serious bushfires is increasing partly because of lower-cost housing on the fringes of cities, according to an expert in the field.

The Urban Developer

Mirvac has announced a partnership with clean energy provider, Evergen, to bring an innovative solar offer to future residents of Ascot Green, the $950 million joint development with the Brisbane Racing Club at the Eagle Farm Racecourse.

ABC News

Authorities in northern Western Australia are warning amateur boaties they are risking their lives by attempting to swim with humpback whales off the Ningaloo Coast.

ABC News

A plan to scrap a 20-year-long egg oiling program at a seagull colony next to a busy road is causing division amongst Tasmanian bird experts.

News.com.au

A MYSTERIOUS world of upside-down canyons have been discovered on the underside of Antarctica’s ice shelves and it could be bad news.

ABC News

There is renewed hope parts of East Antarctica will be declared marine protected areas, more than seven years after the proposal was first developed.

The Canberra Times

Federal government agency Airservices Australia has rejected calls from a key firefighters union for the release of records related to the use of foams containing toxic chemicals.

The Herald Sun

ANOTHER batch of abandoned oBikes have been fished out of the Yarra River.