A new report has revealed that flaws in the regulation of Australia’s electricity network have delivered billions of dollars worth of profits to poles and wires companies, at the expense of consumers and hindering the transition to renewables.

Topping off a truly stunning week in energy news after AGL announced all its coal-burning power stations will be closed by 2035, experts were “gobsmacked” by the Queensland Government’s announcement that the state would do the same. Could we be at the tipping point away from coal-burning...

Australia’s biggest climate polluter AGL has announced it will bring forward the closure of its dirty coal-burning power station Loy Yang A by a decade as part of its strategic review - five years beyond what the science calls for but a significant step forward for a company that planned to burn...

The Investor Group on Climate Change has released its policy priorities report for 2022-2025, outlining key areas for reform that would align Australia’s emissions target to the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5C and ensure the country was able to manage an “orderly” retreat from coal.

Australian rock icons Midnight Oil stopped midway through their two-hour performance at RAC Arena in Western Australia to blast gas giant Woodside over its Scarborough gas project. Wearing a t-shirt reading “Woodside = Climate Wrecker” below screens reading “Woodside Ecocide”, frontman Peter...

The president of the Pacific island of Vanuatu has become the first head of state to make a call for a global treaty to phase out the use of fossil fuels, warning of the "debilitating consequences" of climate change.

New research by the Australian National University’s Professor Andrew Macintosh has identified “systemic flaws” with the way regulators are handing out carbon credits to Australian businesses, calling the system a “fraud on the environment”. 

Origin has announced it is pulling out of new gas exploration, including selling its interest in the Beetaloo Basin project - a sign of the accelerating clean energy transition, but concrete steps are needed to shift away from fossil fuels in the short to medium term. 

RepuTex, the company that helped draft Labor’s climate policy before the election is warning the Albanese government that it shouldn’t reward big polluters with new carbon credits that do not equate to a direct environmental improvement. According to RepuTex, half of Australia’s 215 biggest carbon...

Woodside’s final federal environmental submission for its toxic Browse gas project reveals it will produce approximately 1.6 billion tonnes of climate pollution over its lifetime, and will directly threaten the habitat of critically endangered turtle species.