The Trump administration’s Affordable Clean Energy Plan would help the declining coal industry, but a study shows many coal workers could transition to a new industry – solar – and earn more money.
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South Africa’s new energy plan is set to be announced.
If there were enough floor-crossers to sink the package’s emissions reduction legislation, that would effectively (though not literally) amount to a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
“We won’t support a scheme that leaves the states in the dark and leaves us all hostage to the extremists in Turnbull’s party room,” D'Ambrosio will say.
Australia needs to accelerate its transition to clean energy, and not prolong the use of high-polluting, coal-fired infrastructure. Otherwise it risks missing out on an economic windfall.
To make a concession to the coal lobby would flout the technology-neutral foundation of the NEG and have much more serious implications than throwing in some money to boost the GST pool.
After the G7 fiasco, it’s clear that a trade war is in the making. US justifications of “national security concerns” for its tariffs suggest a legitimate target for EU countermeasures: coal.
There is simply no credible evidence supporting the contention that America is experiencing a grid emergency.
Study finds that coal pollution in China is leading to people getting significant levels of mercury poisoning from rice.
In the abstract, this near-mythic figure represents bravery, hard work and manliness.
The federal government is confident that states will sign up to the National Energy Guarantee, with a final decision now timetabled for August.
AGL has announced plans to use coal to make hydrogen fuel at its Loy Yang A station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. Wait, isn’t coal made of carbon, not hydrogen? Yes, but here’s how the process works.
Government pressure on AGL to keep its Liddell power plant open past 2022 ignores the sensible, cost-effective plan to replace it.
Another tumultuous week in politics saw the appearance of the “Monash Forum”, more speculation about the 30th Newspoll and the Greens proposing a people’s bank.
Many among the public will discount Abbott’s activities as just his usual trouble-making. The noise, however, reinforces the general impression of a fractured government.
The new pro-coal ‘Monash Forum’ follows in a rich political tradition of think tanks and pressure groups, all with names calculated to lend themselves maximum gravitas and a large dose of obfuscation.
Barnaby Joyce says he would be ‘100%’ behind the government constructing coal-fired power stations if that would lower the price of electricity.
Shale gas exploitation in the US has helped cut is greenhouse gas emissions by 11%. A study explores what would happen if this were expanded globally, and the findings challenge conventional wisdom.
Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.
After a long run of devastating typhoons, one country is holding the world’s biggest corporations to account on climate change.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Research fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
