Labor’s car plan shifts down a gear as voters lukewarm on carbon targets
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Labor’s car plan shifts down a gear as voters lukewarm on carbon targets

The Resolve Political Monitor shows that 43 per cent of voters opposed the vehicle emission plan when asked about the policy in its original form.

  • byDavid Crowe

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Scientists struggle to explain ‘really weird’ spike in world temperatures

Scientists struggle to explain ‘really weird’ spike in world temperatures

Extreme temperatures have shattered the grimmest expectations of a warming world and tested climate models.

  • byNick O'Malley
Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Winter gas threat grows in Victoria,NSW as offshore fields dry up

Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
AGL boss says no to Dutton’s nuclear vision for coal power sites

AGL boss says no to Dutton’s nuclear vision for coal power sites

Australia’s biggest coal-fired power plant operator has ruled out taking part in the Coalition’s plan to build nuclear generators at its sites.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
Environmental group’s spy satellite to sniff out fugitive emissions

Environmental group’s spy satellite to sniff out fugitive emissions

For years methane was largely ignored in the climate change debate,but now rogue methane emissions are being hunted out with increasingly high-tech tools.

  • byNick O'Malley
Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Review ordered into green legal group over bid to halt Santos’ gas project

Australia’s largest environmental legal centre faces an external review after a judge determined it had coached Indigenous witnesses and confected evidence.

  • byNick Toscano
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Deep discounting may be needed to drive EV sales where Labor needs them

Deep discounting may be needed to drive EV sales where Labor needs them

The average price of an electric vehicle may have to be $31,000 below that of an equivalent petrol passenger car to achieve the government’s take-up targets,a new analysis suggests.

  • byDavid Crowe
Woodside mounts bid to stave off another investor climate revolt

Woodside mounts bid to stave off another investor climate revolt

Oil and gas giant Woodside is seeking to shore up support for its climate agenda ahead of a critical investor vote next month.

  • byNick Toscano
Grid needs more clean energy than federal scheme will deliver

Grid needs more clean energy than federal scheme will deliver

Plans to turbocharge green energy projects through a federal underwriting scheme will get Australia most of the way – but not all the way – to its 2030 target.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
Hyzon bets on hydrogen in race to clean up trucking emissions

Hyzon bets on hydrogen in race to clean up trucking emissions

A US-based vehicle maker is set to release a new hydrogen-powered heavy-duty commercial truck designed and assembled in Melbourne.

  • byNick Toscano
Fight over car emissions is as stupid today as it was in the 1980s
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Fight over car emissions is as stupid today as it was in the 1980s

Vested and political interests are using old arguments to slow or stop a change that will reduce our petrol bills and improve our air quality.

  • byShane Wright