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title: Climate bill tipped to become law
description: Labor’s climate bill appears set to become law with teals and the Greens securing concessions to support Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target.
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# Climate bill tipped to become law
Wednesday, 3 August 2022
Labor’s climate change bill appears set to become law with teal independents and the Greens securing concessions to support Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target.
Australia’s east coast will continue to be bombarded with rains and floods due to yet another climatic phenomenon likely to add to the unrelenting downpour of recent months.
And a scuba diver who filmed a giant translucent mass bobbing along beside him off PNG’s coast may have discovered a new species of jellyfish.
[Climate change bill gets clear air to pass through parliament](https://app.meltwater.com/mwTransition/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftransition.meltwater.com%2Fpaywall%2Fredirect%2FOLjkNuo0Uj_phiKruQufxj3R_gc%3Fcid%3D51fc1b81-0f2a-49be-b79f-5623e4df1c60%26productType%3Ddigest&uId=5a778e7a00aa2026a265262c&cId=5a71496272d9dc241933e61d&contextId=62e982a06b90952cd71693cb&dId=OLjkNuo0Uj_phiKruQufxj3R_gc&op=open&sentiment=N&isHosted=false&id=18347420&name=Federal%20Election%202022&type=search&s=mail-digest)
Anthony Albanese’s climate-change bill is expected to pass through the parliament after teal independents and the Greens secured concessions to support Labor’s 43 per cent medium-term emissions reduction target.
[Greens in ‘powerful position’ on climate as Labor faces scrutiny over Coalition’s ‘gas-fired recovery’ projects](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/03/greens-in-powerful-position-on-climate-as-labor-faces-scrutiny-over-coalitions-gas-fired-recovery-projects)
Adam Bandt will declare the Greens are in a “powerful position” and the Liberals are “irrelevant” as he outlines his party’s position on Labor’s climate target bills during an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.
[BOM declares negative Indian Ocean Dipole, likely to add to unrelenting rain in Australia's east](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/bom-negative-indian-ocean-dipole-declared-la-nina/101258982)
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared yet another climatic phenomenon likely to add to unrelenting rain on Australia’s east coast. Known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), the climate driver affects rainfall patterns across Australia.
[Jellyfish filmed by scuba diver off Papua New Guinea could be rare or new species](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/possible-new-jellyfish-species-discovered-filmed-far-north-qld/101276620)
When scuba diver Dorian Borcherds turned on his video camera, he became transfixed by the giant translucent mass bobbing along beside him. What he had captured on film in the watery depths off Papua New Guinea now has marine biologists excited.
[Environmental watchdog investigating 'elevated' lead levels in ducks from Victorian wetlands](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-03/victoria-duck-hunting-lead-poisoning/101292288)
Wedge-tailed eagles and other protected species are at risk of being paralysed by lead poisoning in Victoria, according to wildlife advocates, with illegal lead ammunition still being used to shoot ducks.
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