Barack Obama has finally acted to regulate coal-fired power stations. The Climate Institute's Susan Cavanagh explains what it means for Australia.
Bill Shorten's higher RET is intended to exploit the gap between voter enthusiasm for renewables and Tony Abbott's pathological hatred of them. But it's not the best way to achieve decarbonisation.
The federal government says there is "merit" in investigating the effects of "infrasound" and wind turbines. But state environment ministers have said that's total bunk.
Renewable energy is helping Australia make the transition from private to socialised power. And that scares the pants off Big Energy.
One of Australia's fiercest critics of renewable energy, Graham Lloyd, has left the country to travel to Peru for his Amazon rainforest conservation foundation, which he runs under a different name. No, really.
The Sun has found its traffic choked by its paywall. Plus other media tidbits of the day,
Comet lander Philae has defied all expectations and is continuing to transmit photos from the comet's surface long after it was thought to have gone dark.
Tony Abbott has taken a stand against tall towers that cause all kinds of health problems. But the towers in question are mobile phone towers, and it's 1995. Ketan Joshi explains.
Is Australia really committed to a sustainable emissions reduction target? That is what everyone will want to know at tonight's climate talks, writes Erwin Jackson, deputy CEO of The Climate Institute.
The Grattan researchers forgot quite a few things about Queensland, writes economist and University of Queensland academic John Quiggin
