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Make it law: young Australians want healthy environment

Make it law: young Australians want healthy environment

Young people believe the right to a healthy environment should be set in law as Australia is accused to falling behind other nations.

Consultation opens to address risk of 'carbon leakage'

Consultation opens to address risk of 'carbon leakage'

Consultation opens to address risk of 'carbon leakage'

Consultation opens to address risk of 'carbon leakage'

Public consultation has opened as the federal government explores policies to limit so-called carbon leakage, including a carbon border adjustment mechanism.

Sea dumping legislation passes the upper house

Sea dumping legislation passes the upper house

Sea dumping legislation passes the upper house

Sea dumping legislation passes the upper house

Carbon dioxide will be allowed to be exported from Australia to be stored under the sea after new laws passed in federal parliament.

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Logging ban can save Australia's iconic mammals: MP

Logging ban can save Australia's iconic mammals: MP

An independent MP is spearheading a push for Australia to wrap up its native forest logging practice, with fears iconic animals will continue being killed.

Climate protesters wait on challenge to parliament law

Climate protesters wait on challenge to parliament law

A group of 13 Extinction Rebellion protesters face up to three years in jail for allegedly disrupting parliament for three minutes with anti-fossil fuel chants.

Turnbull double act call for 'more density, everywhere'

Turnbull double act call for 'more density, everywhere'

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and former Sydney mayor Lucy Turnbull have weighed into housing affordability debate as part of a national address.

Company directors face nature-related risk: opinion

Company directors face nature-related risk: opinion

Conservationists hope a new legal opinion will compel corporate Australia to get a handle on how it uses and affects nature.

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Review damns delivery of Murray-Darling Basin plan

Review damns delivery of Murray-Darling Basin plan

Review damns delivery of Murray-Darling Basin plan

Review damns delivery of Murray-Darling Basin plan

A report into the delivery of the Murray-Darling Basin says the federal government must take a renewed approach to water recovery, with little progress made.

Interest-free loans to power up demand for clean energy

Interest-free loans to power up demand for clean energy

Interest-free loans to power up demand for clean energy

Interest-free loans to power up demand for clean energy

Interest-free loans on solar panels and batteries will be offered by one major bank in a bid to make renewable energy affordable to more households.

Mixed response to consultation on new laws for nature

Mixed response to consultation on new laws for nature

Mixed response to consultation on new laws for nature

Mixed response to consultation on new laws for nature

Stakeholders have been given an overview of Australia's new environment laws, and there appears to be little movement on climate change threats.

ABC denies betraying anti-Woodside group sources

ABC denies betraying anti-Woodside group sources

ABC denies betraying anti-Woodside group sources

ABC denies betraying anti-Woodside group sources

The ABC says it didn't betray anti-Woodside Energy climate activists involved in a Four Corners program by revealing its sources to counter-terrorism police.

Government grilled over plans for new nature laws

Government grilled over plans for new nature laws

Government grilled over plans for new nature laws

Government grilled over plans for new nature laws

New laws to protect Australia's ailing environment are proving complex, and won't be available for the public to scrutinise until next year.

Parliament protester trial delayed over 'technicality'

Parliament protester trial delayed over 'technicality'

Parliament protester trial delayed over 'technicality'

Parliament protester trial delayed over 'technicality'

The trial of 14 climate change activists accused of disrupting Queensland parliament by chanting slogans has been adjourned due to an argument over legislation.

Qld activists could be jailed over three minute protest

Qld activists could be jailed over three minute protest

Qld activists could be jailed over three minute protest

Qld activists could be jailed over three minute protest

A protest that lasted three minutes but disrupted the workings of Queensland's parliament could land 14 climate protesters in jail for up to three years.

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Sydney councils on notice over floodplain approvals

The NSW premier has promised changes are underway to ensure building proposals in flood-prone areas are not approved.

High Court rules against state electric vehicle charges

The High Court has ruled the Victorian government unlawfully charged electric, hydrogen and plug-in hybrid vehicle owners a fee for each kilometre they travel.

Nannas dig in as UN expert condemns anti-protest laws

A UN investigator has taken aim at Australia's crackdown on the right to protest as aging climate activists await a court ruling on 'scary' new laws.

More changes needed to drive electric truck revolution

Recent changes to allow bigger and heavier trucks on Australian roads will see more electric truck trials but experts say permanent reforms are necessary.

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'Extinction risk': federal backing for feral horse cull

A federal inquiry says NSW must allow the aerial culling of brumbies in the Australian Alps, saying they pose an immediate extinction risk for native species.

NSW assured Eraring lifeline won't kill climate goals

Keeping Australia's largest coal power plant open won't shut the door on NSW achieving its legislated carbon emissions targets, the government says.

Energy giants fail on climate lobbying disclosures

Australian companies are lagging behind the US on disclosing their spending on political lobbying around climate change policy.

Few Aussies grasp serious, urgent climate threat

Just 15 per cent of Australians say climate change is an extremely serious problem right now, with many viewing it as a future peril, a survey has found.

Aussie hydrogen firms to compete for $2 billion boost

A record amount of funding is being offered to Australia's renewable hydrogen producers in a bid to ensure the country leads the world in 2030.

'Safe and valuable' industry bids to allay gas fears

There is simply no reason NSW should go it alone and should ban offshore gas exploration and production, a key player has told MPs amid environmental worry.

Australia rejoins global climate fund initiative

Australia will make a 'modest contribution' to the Green Climate Fund after a five-year absence, which will help developing nations respond to climate change.

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