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.
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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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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Editor, Grattan Institute
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Library Faculty Member, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Penn State
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Associate Professor of History, Shippensburg University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
