Browsing: Renewables, low emissions

• ABARE tots up coal and renewables power plans
  
• Ousted U.S. Republican quotes Kim Beazley in climate sceptic critique(with video)
  
• Productivity Commission schedules urban water hearings
  
• EPA Victoria and environment group partner for community forums
  
• SA EPA issues desalination plant licence

• Global investors sound warning on 'climate investment gap'
  
• NSW offering energy savings scheme seminars
  
• Renewable energy regulator outlines 2010 compliance year deadlines
  
• Climate department issues science and challenges summary

• WA company ordered to halt chemical incineration
  
• Draft Federal HVAC code targets building owners and managers
  
• Government issues guidance on EPBC Act and controlled burns
  
• New Zealand to create national EPA
  
• Clean Energy Council says Victorian Opposition policy would decimate wind industry

Westpac will 'avoid' transactions that support greenhouse-gas intensive power plants and is 'speaking out' on sustainable business practices, but has fallen short of meeting this year's target for cutting its own greenhouse gas emissions, today's sustainability report reveals.

• NSW secures enforceable undertaking from Tenix, Bega council
  
• Widely-used toxic chemicals targeted for phase-out
  
• Climate adaptation costing urban water utilities billions
  
• Australia Institute finds little merit in home solar subsidies

High-cost schemes that subsidise wind power and household solar PV should be dropped and replaced with an economy-wide carbon price, says a briefing to the multi-party committee established to forge political consensus on a Federal carbon policy regime.

• Infigen seeks NSW approval for four utility-scale solar PV plants
  
• Cap-and-trade not the only option, TRUenergy tells Senate
  
• Tasmania offers climate grants

• Ferguson seeks views on $100 million renewables fund
  
• NSW kicks off greenhouse gas scheme review
  
• Victorian commission starts work on trade waste code
  
• U.S. courts will hear more climate cases: Deutsche Bank

Electricity consumers face an unexpected $600 million increase in their 2011 electricity bills because the Federal Government has grossly under-estimated how many certificates will be created from small-scale solar PV systems, according to several leading businesses and industry groups.

• 'Best practice' test crucial for coal gasification power plant
  
• Queensland details approach to enforcement
  
• WA finalises approval conditions for BHPB gas project; iron ore mine
  
• Environment group compares Hazelwood power plant election commitments