The media continues to churn out reams of copy on tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ bid to buy Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, and replace its ageing and increasingly unreliable coal fleet with clean energy.

The Greens have proposed a $40 billion renationalisation of Australia’s electricity market, including phasing out coal and gas-powered plants by 2030, recasting Snowy Hydro as renewables-only, and reversing the investment in the Kurri Kurri gas plant. 

Suburbs in Sydney’s west like Penrith could face nearly two months of extreme heat above 35 degrees per year by the end of the century if carbon emissions remain high, according to a new report by Sweltering Cities and the Australia Institute. 

The future beyond coal looks bright for the Hunter with investors keen to pour $100 billion into wind, solar, battery and pumped hydro projects into the Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone.

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has heard that an extension to the Narrabri coal mine would result in more scope 1 emissions than any other coal mine in Australia.

In the week’s saddest news, koalas have been officially listed as an endangered species in NSW and Queensland. The need for a recovery plan for the beloved marsupial was identified nine years ago, as the Coalition government came to power, but none was put in place.AGL, Australia’s biggest climate...

Greenpeace’s Green Electricity Guide continues to make news with many Australians switching power providers after learning that the country’s biggest electricity generators are among our biggest emitters and biggest greenwashers of their climate credentials.

The Morrison Government has claimed its management of the Reef is “second to none” in a report to the UN, which has been dubbed “a stunning work of spin” that “reeks of hypocrisy” without rapidly reducing emissions. 

Voters in New South Wales and Queensland back green energy technologies to secure their long-term economic future and a majority acknowledge the era of coal and gas is coming to a close, according to a new poll. 

With the Great Barrier Reef on the cusp of a fourth mass bleaching in six years, a new study reveals that only 0.2 percent of coral reefs globally are likely to avoid frequent heat stress if temperatures rise. Our politicians have long known that climate change is the number one threat to our...