The path to Australia’s clean energy future is clear and we must act now as the Australian Energy Market Operator releases its 30-year electricity market roadmap, calling for more than $12 billion of investment in new transmission lines to begin "as urgently as possible" as part of a transition to...

As representatives of more than 120 countries gather in Lisbon for the UN’s Ocean Conference, UN chief Antonio Guterres said some countries don’t accept that the world's oceans belong to everyone and "egoism" is holding up a global agreement to protect them. 

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2021, largely attributed to transport and fossil fuel production. The spike has laid bare that gas has no place in our energy transition and we need a strong Fuel Efficiency Standard to get Australia onto the clean transport track.

The National Electricity Market has been switched back on, after being brought to a state of near-collapse, but persistent coal outages continue to plague the system and hamper market recovery. Unreliable coal is dragging our energy market backward.Meanwhile, Rio Tinto’s seen the writing on the...

As proposed energy market reforms are debated, a coalition of major renewable investors is warning Australia could lose access to billions of dollars in investment needed to transform the grid to 100 per cent clean energy unless the market reforms exclude fossil fuels.

With AEMO's intervention in Australia's east coast energy market ending overnight, experts warn of further turbulence as more retailers decline new customers and others are forced out of the industry - a damning indictment of the greed of coal and gas companies hurting Australians and the country's...

A legal bid to halt the toxic Scarborough gas development in WA is underway, arguing the impact of the project’s emissions on the Great Barrier Reef will be significant and should be assessed under national environment law.

An oil spill is taking place in the Montara oil field off the coast of WA, the same oil field that was the scene of Australia's largest offshore oil disaster in 2009. 

Energy news dominates the headlines today with a paper from the Energy Security Board recommending reviving the controversial “Coalkeeper” policy, including polluting coal and gas in the energy capacity market. A capacity market that includes coal and gas will lock in more expensive electricity for...

Federal energy minister Chris Bowen has blamed the energy crisis on slow renewables investment, pushing back on suggestions we need to keep coal generators operating.