Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has launched a takeover bid for troubled energy company AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, to hasten the transition from coal to renewables. After Origin Energy announced the closure of Eraring coal-fired power station last week, the NSW State Government...

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. 

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.

Renewable energy is squeezing coal and gas out of the electricity market, with renewables providing five times more power than gas in 2021 and coal-fired power at its lowest level since the NEM began in 1999.

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.

With leaked texts dripping all over the Press Gallery, we’re deep in election season. While Morrison fights for political survival, the Greens have set out their climate terms for backing Labor in the case of a hung parliament, including a moratorium on new coal, oil and gas projects. With the...

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. 

With one eye to coal communities and another to his party’s mediocre environmental credentials, Anthony Albanese has declared Labor will support a taxpayer-funded power station in the Hunter Valley but only if the proposed white elephant can run on green hydrogen instead of gas by 2030.

The Morrison Government is pledging $1 billion for Great Barrier Reef conservation projects over the next decade, just days before Australia is due to send a report to Unesco about the state of the Reef and its plans to protect it.