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Sponsorship from fossil-fuel companies is worth millions to Australian sport. But growing opposition from the public and athletes themselves may force sports to rethink these deals.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Keith Pitt on the climate plan and coal’s future
Keith Pitt is one of the governments loudest advocates for the coal industry. In the wake of the Nationals agreeing to net zero, he talks about the 2050 climate plan and the future of coal
The Trump presidency has been a godsend for an Australian government apparently uninterested in significant climate action. But with Trump well behind in the polls, that’s set to change.
Australia’s entire coal fleet will retire in the next few decades. The federal government’s response to the Hazelwood coal plant closure has left a mess – it must do better.
While Tony Abbott’s London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia’s coal heartland.
Are all people entitled to live in a clean and healthy environment? A legal scholar says yes, and argues for using this principle to address damage from polluting industries in Appalachia.
Pittsburgh’s post-industrial economic resurgence is promising, a historian of the region writes, but there’s a reason President Trump highlighted the area in his speech exiting the Paris climate deal.
Coal miners are often romanticized in our society and held up as examples of hard-working Americans who deserve our respect. In reality, many retired miners could get the shaft this Friday.
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor and Co-director, Sport Innovation Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Editor, Grattan Institute
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Faculty Member, George R. Farmer Jr., Law Library, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of History, Shippensburg University
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Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor of Sport Management and Director, Center for Sport Management and Education and the Laboratory for Sustainability in Sport, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, Sport Innovation Research Group, Swinburne University of Technology
