The Coalition’s nuclear proposal offers no outlook for lower household bills, and the political debate obscures the fact that the plan is undeliverable.
Australia will soon seal an agreement with a group of Western nations to end public subsidies for fossil fuel export projects, drying up a key source of finance for new oil, gas and coal fields.
The prime minister bowed to mining interests and poor polling in Western Australia with a last-minute decision to upend a deal with the Greens on the Nature Positive laws.
Despite increasing restrictions on their protest, thousands have gathered at the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle to demand an end to fossil-fuel exports by 2030.
A precedent-setting case alleges the oil giant misled investors about future emissions, using unsubstantiated data and following direct interventions by the chief executive.
Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, despite being twice impeached and guilty of myriad crimes, will have major consequences for climate change, inflation and geopolitics.
A legal victory has led oil and gas company Santos to seek retribution against environment groups, in actions that could crush future efforts to hold fossil fuel companies to account.
The decision to move from covering protests to joining in was important to the author, and her experience of lock-on and arrest revealed the courage that direct action requires.
