All posts by Rebecca Pearse
Labor’s scheme to cut industrial emissions is worryingly flexible
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The federal government today proposed new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from Australia’s polluting industrial sector. The rule changes apply to a measure known as the “safeguard mechanism”, and are supposed to stop Australia’s top 215 emitters,…
residents embrace renewable energy but worry how their towns will change
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Amid soaring energy costs, the new Labor government is working to deliver a A$20 billion pledge to rebuild and modernise Australia’s electricity grid. It will help deliver a plan for 122 gigawatts of new renewable energy in the…