Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism is finally beginning to do what it was designed to: place real limits on the country’s biggest polluters. After years of climate inaction, the scheme has been ...

Several large coal mines have slashed their annual carbon emissions by more than half as a result of mandated changes to accounting methods that have prompted experts to question the reliability ...

The study builds on the idea of emissions trading, which has been in operation in Europe since 2005 and in China since 2021, and has at times been criticised.

Kolstad explained that the main environmental ... can remove about 95% of sulfur dioxide emissions from a coal plant before they’re released into the atmosphere. The installation of these ...

When the country holds national elections on Saturday, polls indicate that climate change won’t be top of mind for many. But the leading candidates, from the Labor Party and the Liberal-National ...

Because that is the only really good reason I can see for stopping the use of coal. And the answer, it turns out, is no. Although the U.S. has decreased its carbon emissions by almost 16 percent ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted nearly 70 coal-fired U.S. power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury ...