pollution Archives - Renew Economy

Coal

Australian coal mines leak massive amounts of methane in “super emitting” event
A toxic gas is turbocharging heatwaves, bushfires and coral bleaching, and going largely unreported under “faulty” emission safeguards, satellite data suggests.
Marion Rae

Apr 16, 2024

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Policy & Planning

What price clean air? This benefit alone will cover cost of 1.5°C climate action
IPCC report provides “unequivocal statement” that the economic benefits of limiting global warming to below 2°C outweigh the costs.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 21, 2023

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Policy & Planning

US Supreme Court curtails EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution
Ruling by activist court doesn’t take away the EPA’s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, but it makes federal action much harder.
Patrick Parenteau

Jul 1, 2022

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Coal

New data shows big jump in toxic coal plant pollution, even as output falls
Analysis shows big increase in amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by Australia’s ageing fleet of coal-fired power plants, even while generation output of some has decreased.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 5, 2022

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Household gas use much worse for health and climate than first thought
Pollution from gas stoves, including their greenhouse gas footprint, is much worse than first thought, new research shows.
Michael Mazengarb

Jan 28, 2022

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Coal

Hunt on for main culprit as scientists find coal contamination in Lake Macquarie
Study confirms coal plants’ contribution to mercury deposits in Lake Macquarie and seeks to narrow down which is the biggest offender: ash dams or atmospheric emissions.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 27, 2021

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Policy & Planning

Australia’s gas-led recovery is flogging a dead horse
With LNG worse for the climate than coal, Australia must adjust to the fact that its export markets are shrinking.
Bruce Robertson

Nov 3, 2020

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Coal

Coal generation kills 800 a year in Australia, says new report
New report finds pollution from Australia’s 22 remaining coal power plants is causing hundreds of premature deaths a year, thousands of chronic respiratory illnesses.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 25, 2020

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Electric Vehicles

Australia risks becoming dumping ground for world’s most polluting cars
Australia risks becoming dumping ground for world’s worst polluting vehicles because of absence of fuel and vehicle efficiency standards, according to BloombergNEF.
Giles Parkinson

May 25, 2020

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Michael Moore’s electric vehicle myths only benefit the fossil fuel industry
Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ isn’t just wrong. It’s actively denying a range of quality-of-life improvements.
Ketan Joshi

May 20, 2020

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Policy & Planning

Australia emissions rise for 3rd year in row, despite fall in electricity
Australia emissions rise for 3rd year, with electricity the only sector to show a fall, thanks to a policy mechanism the government tried to kill.
Sophie Vorrath

May 14, 2018

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Commentary

A regulatory blow to Spain’s subsidised coal-fired electricity sector
Security-of supply justifications are seen in Spain as just political schemes to support the status quo. Hello Australia.
Gerard Wynn Paolo Coghe and Carlota Ruiz-Bautista

Jan 30, 2018

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