2025 • Dec 31
Here we go again: Retiring coal plant forced to stay open by Trump Admin
This time, a Colorado plant scheduled to shut down will be kept on standby. ...
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2025 • Dec 12
Coalmine expansions would breach climate targets, NSW government warned in ‘game-changer’ report
Environmental advocates welcome Net Zero Commission’s report which found the fossil fuel was ‘not consistent’ with emissions reductions commitments
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2025 • Nov 30
Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
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2025 • Nov 26
Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
Over the course of 2025, electricity demand has gradually declined. ...
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2025 • Nov 17
South Korean decision to close all coal-fired power plants by 2040 sounds alarm for Australian exports
Decision announced at Cop30 climate conference signposts risks for Australia’s reliance on fossil fuel exports, analysts say
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2025 • Oct 15
Adani denies claims it sold ‘below-market coal’ leading to Queensland missing out on hundreds of millions in royalties
Adani has strongly rejected the Australia Institute’s findings, including that customers paid an average of $102 a tonne in 2022-23
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2025 • Oct 07
Fiery Senate exchange reveals investigation into coal firm allegedly clearing endangered greater glider habitat
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ - though later withdrew the remarkGet our
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2025 • Sep 23
Queensland coalmines marked for closure ‘uneconomic’, analysis shows, despite sector blaming royalties scheme
Findings show ‘zombie mines’ often restarted during coal price spikes and mothballed as prices return to normal levels
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2025 • Aug 27
US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit
Half of a year of data shows that the solar boom is not slowing down. ...
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2025 • Aug 13
Commonwealth Bank posts record $10.25bn profit and...
Australia’s biggest bank delivers bumper payout to shareholders as CBA vows to end lending to coal companies with no net zero plans
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2025 • Aug 11
UK taxpayers on hook as failed Cumbria coalmine investors sue government
Singapore firm using secretive international legal system to seek compensation for climate concerns blocking plansThe UK government is being sued in a secretive “corporate court” after a pro...
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2025 • Aug 05
Australia’s biggest battery now on standby to prevent NSW power blackouts
The Waratah Super Battery will stabilise the grid and put further downward pressure on electricity prices, experts say
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