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- White House moves to keep costly, dirty, unneeded Michigan coal plants open 20 June 2025One plant produces more arsenic pollution than any other in US, and the other has been slated for closure since 2021The Trump administration is moving to keep open two Michigan coal plants that emit about 45% of the state’s greenhouse gas pollution, which opponents say is an indication of how the US president plans to […]Tom Perkins
- NSW budget unlikely to allocate extra funding for long-promised great koala national park 19 June 2025‘People will see that we’re making progress on it,’ treasurer Daniel Mookhey tells Guardian AustraliaAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe long-promised “great koala national park” is not expected to get any additional funding in next week’s New South Wales 2025-26 budget despite being a centrepiece […]Anne Davies NSW state correspondent
- Turning coalmines into solar energy plants ‘could add 300GW of renewables by 2030’ 17 June 2025Solar panels on defunct surface mines could put land to productive use for renewable generation, report saysTurning recently closed coalmines into solar energy plants could add almost 300GW of renewable energy by 2030, converting derelict wastelands to productive use, according to a new report.In a first of its kind analysis, researchers from Global Energy Monitor […]Damien Gayle
- Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics 17 June 2025Energy secretary speaks at launch of £1bn investment scheme to bolster jobs in offshore wind supply chainEd Miliband has said the government will “win this fight” against critics of Britain’s net zero plan, in part by creating more offshore wind jobs in the country’s former industrial heartlands.The energy secretary appeared to take aim at his […]Jillian Ambrose
- Spanish minister rules out cyber-attack as cause of April blackout, after expert report 17 June 2025System failure caused by network’s inability to control grid voltage said to be behind outage in Spain and PortugalThe unprecedented blackout that brought the Iberian peninsula to a standstill at the end of April was caused by surging voltages triggering “a chain reaction of disconnections” that shut down the power network, an expert report commissioned […]Sam Jones in Madrid