Emissions
- Opinion
- Environmental protection
Like ChatGPT, we need clear goals and rules. Otherwise, we could make bad decisions
We’re remarkably similar to the chatbot. But there’s one big thing we can – and need – to do differently.
- Millie Muroi
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Turning ocean winds into electricity is getting harder
Some prospective developers of the first Australian offshore wind projects have withdrawn from their early feasibility studies already.
- Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Woodside’s environmental plan for $12b project ‘corporate puffery’, court told
Woodside argues its Scarborough gas project in Australia’s north-west will displace coal use globally. But it needs a plan in case that theory falls through.
- Emma Young
Trucks are big polluters, but can batteries make them cleaner?
In 2024, trucks emitted 22 million tonnes of CO2, and the freight industry is still debating how to decarbonise the long-haul routes.
- Angus Delaney
- Opinion
- Electricity
America has waved a white flag on 21st-century technology supremacy
The combination of Donald Trump’s gutting of Joe Biden’s subsidies for green technologies and his tariffs are gifting China victory in a race it already leads.
- Stephen Bartholomeusz
‘We’re just not getting the uptake’: Electric car sales hit a bump in the road
Industry figures reveal battery-powered EV sales are slumping, while hybrid vehicles continued to grow.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Damning environmental scorecard as NSW abandons old Net Zero Plan
The State of the Environment report reveals a devastating decline in biodiversity, while the government is scrambling to meet its legislated emissions targets.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
‘Fork in the road’: How a failed nuclear plot locked in Australia’s renewable future
Australians have voted for something that will outlive the next election: the guaranteed switch from coal to renewable energy.
- Nick Toscano
Electric cars died a century ago. Could that happen again?
Battery-operated vehicles were a mainstay on American roads - until politicians put their thumbs on the scale, and came down on the side of the oil industry, and petrol-powered cars.
- Ivan Penn
Hundreds more public EV chargers are bound for NSW. Here is where you’ll find them
The NSW government will install 246 fast-charging ports for electric vehicles at 38 locations across Sydney and regional areas.
- Megan Gorrey
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