Labor’s climate change bill is poised to pass the upper house today after the government agreed to independent senator David Pocock’s proposals to improve accountability and transparency. 

Coal is in permanent decline with Australia’s key allies turning to renewable energy and away from coal-fired power in response to the energy crisis and high prices, according to the independent Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

One of Australia’s biggest super funds has warned electricity producers AGL and Origin and gas companies Santos and Woodside that it could dump their stocks unless the companies take serious steps to align their business plans with limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celcius.

Veteran economist Ross Garnaut says Australia is better placed than any other country to prosper from the global energy transition and used his keynote address at the jobs and skills summit to call for investment in renewables. 

Australia’s Energy Market Operator has warned that NSW, SA and Victoria could struggle to keep the lights on unless there is a massive investment in power generation, storage and transmission over the next decade.

One hundred scientists and academics have penned an open letter, calling on the federal government to consider the emissions from new coal and gas projects in the assessment process.

South32 has called it quits on a controversial plan to extend its NSW coal mine, which could have caused irreversible damage to the Sydney and Illawarra drinking water catchments.

Tanya Plibersek has approved a controversial fertiliser plant near ancient rock art on Western Australia’s Burrup peninsula.

As the week opens, spare a thought for Clive Palmer and Barnaby Joyce, for whom nothing seems to be going right. Mr Palmer is throwing his toys out of the pram over the Albanese Government’s move to refuse his mega-coal mine, while Mr Joyce apparently knew nothing of Scott Morrison’s secret...

The federal government has taken the first step towards introducing new fuel emission standards to get more electric vehicles into the domestic market, reducing price and emissions - at the national EV summit that kicks off today in Canberra. The event will be attended by Greenpeace CEO, David...