Pleas for extension to examine huge CSG plan

Environmental groups want more time to consider the impacts of Santos' Narrabri CSG project that will include as many as 850 wells, producing more than 100 tonnes of waste salt alone per day.

Caltex cops record fine for 'geyser' that created petrol pool in Sydney

Caltex Australia has been fined $400,000 and ordered to pay court costs for an uncontrolled fuel discharge at its Port Botany terminal.

As politicians bicker, Australia's energy security is at risk

"All the arrows are pointing in a very bad direction," says Danny Price, who sits on the government's Climate Change Authority.

Mark Butler denies Labor has ditched 2030 renewable energy goal

Labor's climate change spokesman Mark Butler has dismissed as "rubbish" widely circulating claims that Federal ALP had dropped its goal of achieving half of the nation's electricity will be supplied by renewable sources by 2030.

Coral bleaching threat extends to Sydney

Unusually warm sea temperatures and the prospect for more to come have reef scientists worried that the Great Barrier Reef may experience another major coral bleaching event. And Sydney is also under threat.

'Way behind the rest of the world': New risk to solar battery uptake

The booming market for home storage could be thrown into disarray if proposed safety guidelines force owners to move their battery units outside.

Mild weather and lack of rain will not aid fire relief

Sydney and much of NSW will take a rare break from this summer's extraordinary run of warmth, with a day or two of milder conditions before temperatures and fire risks start to climb again.

Brandishing coal in a heatwave? Morrison might as well fiddle

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Red hot: NSW smashes February statewide heat records two days in a row

Meteorologists were predicting NSW would set a state-wide record for February warmth during the current heatwave but few would have tipped the mark would be broken two days in a row.