Today
Scramble to set up camp ahead of extreme fire danger
The Wimmera region is slated to have catastrophic fire danger on Wednesday, while extreme fire danger is predicted for five of Victoria’s nine weather districts.
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- Callum Godde and Cassandra Morgan
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
BCA demands 12-month delay in climate reporting
The Albanese government “should be taking the time to get it right”, argues Business Council of Australia boss Bran Black.
- Patrick Durkin
This Month
Firefighters battle ‘potentially catastrophic’ breakdowns in Vic blaze
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thanked Victorian firefighters as another blaze ripped through the state’s west, forcing thousands to evacuate.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Adani’s started solar in India. So should the Nats in the regions
Rather than worry about waking up with a transmission line in your back paddock, the biggest landscape threat is not renewables but climate change.
- Matt Edwards
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Why the Coalition wants more homes with solar and batteries
Labor runs the risk of being outflanked by an emerging Coalition plan to expand household and business solar and storage, at the expense of big business.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Why economist Richard Holden is wrong on energy
Here is our response to Richard Holden’s common misrepresentations and distortions of our carbon solutions levy proposal.
- Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims
Santos’ record dividend justifies pay despite profit slide: CEO
The oil and gas giant’s shareholders were left disappointed two weeks ago after the company and its bigger rival called off talks of an $80 billion merger.
- Ben Potter
Rio Tinto’s giant Queensland bet on Andrew Forrest wind farm
The deal marks another major step in moving the company’s coal-powered aluminium production assets away from fossil fuel.
- Ben Potter
Acciona bets on Qld clean energy as NSW, Victoria lag
The move confirms Queensland as a renewable energy powerhouse and heaps pressure on NSW and Victoria to hasten the approval of more large projects.
- Ben Potter
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
‘Breakthrough moment’: Littleproud backs rooftop solar
The Nationals leader is mulling a plan to divert billions of dollars into putting panels on roofs in the bush to solve the NIMBY transmission problem.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
The Garnaut-Sims power plan is Argentina on steroids
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would be an act of amazing self-harm and would destroy Australia’s big export industries to force-feed unproven ones.
- Ed Shann
Labor holds to US vehicle emissions goal despite Biden ‘doubts’
Labor’s pressing ahead with a plan to encourage EVs by penalising fossil fuel-burning vehicles, even through the US is watering down the model it’s based on.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
Garnaut-Sims power plan is big on ambition, short on logic
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would penalise Australians, deter greener energy switches in Asia, and would be impossible to implement.
- Richard Holden
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Wind claims after Vic blackouts are a bit of hot air
Readers’ letters on what research says about future extreme weather, the lure of ESG, Indonesia flexing its muscles, and the difficulty of separating work and home life.
Teals, Greens taunt Labor on carbon tax proposal
Teal independent Allegra Spender said carbon pricing should be on the table along with scrapping the $8 billion of annual fossil fuel subsidies for off road vehicles users and other special interests.
- Ben Potter
Resurrect carbon price to fund superpower: Garnaut, Sims
Professor Garnaut will say reviving the carbon price is “not as impossible as passing on to our children and grandchildren lower standards of living than our own parents and grandparents left to us”.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Green the grid before racing ahead with cleaner cars
The New Vehicle Efficiency Standard appears to be good news. But climate policy fatigue is well and truly alive and risks a smooth energy transition.
- Kristian Kolding
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
A history lesson in motor head psychology
Thanks to the new emission regulations you’ll soon have a lot more choices of electric and hybrid vehicle models to lust over instead of a V8 Ram 1500.
- Updated
- Tristan Edis
Gina Cass-Gottlieb enters the climate fray
The idea that an efficient transition to clean energy is in the public interest and could trump the ACCC’s core purpose was revolutionary to some.
- Ben Potter
Energy distribution companies need radical reform: report
The Energy Security Board says the firms need to be held accountable for making rooftop solar work as a key part of the energy transition.
- Ben Potter
