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Unions call for a smooth shift from coal to renewables

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...

La Niña set to return

The odds of there being a third sodden summer in a row have shortened now the Bureau of Meteorology has declared a La Niña alert.

BlackRock to invest $1b in Aussie batteries

The world’s biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has selected Australia for the rollout of its largest investment in grid-scale batteries that will be crucial to driving the shift from coal to clean energy.

Energy companies not cutting pollution fast enough

90 per cent of major Australian electricity companies, including AGL, are failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the goals of the landmark Paris climate agreement, a study has found.

Australia in clean car traffic jam

Australia’s decade of climate policy inaction has pushed the nation to the end of the electric vehicle global supply chain, leaving a shortage of affordable clean cars and a lack of charging points that will set back the transition from petrol vehicles for years.

Revealed: the car lobby's secret roadblocks to electric vehicles

The secret blockers of Australia’s electric vehicle transition have been exposed in a major Sydney Morning Herald investigation, which unveils the car lobby’s plan to slow Australia’s climate plan. Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Lindsay Soutar says that “The car lobby’s engagement with fuel...

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