Fossil fuels
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A conservationist case against the coalmine was dismissed in the supreme court on Friday on the grounds blocking it would have no effect on carbon emissions
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Australia’s biggest proposed coal project loses 4m tonne deal with one of its two big customers as the country’s fourth-largest bank publicly distances itself
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Bill targets state public employees’ and teachers’ pension plans and Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign it into law
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Research indicates power of Oscar-nominated film that fueled rise in online searches, social media discussion, news coverage and activism, paper says
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Huge CEO salaries at US firms incentivise expanding carbon reserves but not moves towards clean energy, says thinktank
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US president’s call for action on climate change is at odds with letting Shell drill for oil in the Arctic, says Bill McKibben
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As Lock the Gate prepares to challenge approval to expand the Darling Downs project, campaigners say they are doing the government’s dirty work
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NSW government sources acknowledge Upper Mooki Landcare group has strong case and Chinese state-owned company could have to restart approval process
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It may once have been a coal town, but Newcastle’s fossil fuel divestment could come to be seen as the turning point towards a low-carbon future
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Letters: Solar power is citizen power, so – if you do not want a toxic nuclear future or degraded fracked landscapes and lives – keep building those solar roofs, because each single one is footstep to a cleaner, safer, freer energy future
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An Arctic voyage through the awe-inspiring Northwest Passage shows that rapid action is needed to protect the region
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Newcastle is the seventh council in Australia to announce it will shun fossil fuels, reports the Sydney Morning Herald
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Planet Oz Run for your lives, climate campaigners are sophisticated and can tie their own shoelaces
Graham ReadfearnGraham Readfearn: Coal lobbyists think Australians should be shocked that climate campaigners have strategies and are coordinated -
If Tony Abbott wants to focus on jobs, he has to abandon his obsession with coal – a capital intensive industry that creates fewer jobs than the horse industry
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Earlier this month, 1,500 protesters forced the temporary closure of a vast lignite mine in Germany. It was terrifiyng, exhilarating – and direct action at its best
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Collapsing oil price worldwide leads French firm operating in North Sea to relinquish two pipelines and St Fergus terminal in Scotland
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Environmental groups band together to call on agency to improve laws for disposal of wastewater, often dumped in places that could leak toxic chemicals
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The US’s Environmental Protection Agency has given Australia’s Department of the Environment details of recent fracking study and is peer reviewing papers
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Anote Tong, whose island nation is threatened by rising seas caused by climate change, says Australia has moral obligation to worry about at-risk countries
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Lobby groups say changes were proposed a week after they wrote to the environment minister, Greg Hunt, about $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine
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Chris Riddell on the nasty surprises the Tory right have in store for the prime minister
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Situation is similiar to early days of the US shale boom, says industry expert
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Historians will wonder why the US president was so willing to compromise his stance on climate change
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State Department official says administration’s stance on oil drilling program continues to spur criticism as Hillary Clinton joins list of opponents
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They tried to influence government – but it stopped working. So now the new boss of Friends of the Earth is taking a more radical approach. And, as he predicts a storm of protest over a massive expansion of fracking, he’s ready to take on George Osborne in an ‘ideological war’
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Singer will perform outside Shell’s headquarters in London to campaign against the company dilling for Arctic oil and to raise awareness of climate change
Supreme court dismisses challenge to Gina Rinehart-GVK coalmine