The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was voted down in the Senate for the third time on Wednesday. The vote was 41-33, with only two Opposition Senators choosing to cross the floor and vote with …

Newly elected Opposition Party and climate change skeptic Tony Abbott has vowed to block the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in the Senate.
Abbott won the leadership from Malcolm Turnbull by one vote on Tuesday. This …

The Coalition party room had backed Malcolm Turnbull’s stand on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) legislation negotiated with the government.
The negotiated changes include:
-        reduction in assistance for low income earners of $5.8bn to $48.5bn;
-        …

Agriculture will be permanently excluded from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), a concession to the Coalition that raises hopes that the emissions trading legislation will pass through parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit next month. …

The Australian Coalition party has proposed amendments to the embattled emissions trading scheme shielding big polluters, excluding methane emissions from coal mines and banning agriculture’s inclusion in any trading scheme.
The suggested changes would give some …

The Australian parliament has passed an amended greenhouse gas and energy reporting bill, which removes the  requirement for Australian firms to publish corporate-level energy production, PointCarbon reported.

The legislation was first introduced in 2007 in preparation …

The clean energy industry was given the green light to proceed with an estimated $20 billion expansion over the next decade, after the Senate passed the government’s 20 percent renewable energy legislation on August …

Most Australian businesses are still in the dark about what the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme means to them, nor have taken any action on climate change, a new survey found.

Some 62 percent of the nearly 400 companies …

Former US vice-president and Nobel Peace prize winner for his work on climate change Al Gore urged Australia to pass a carbon trading scheme, even if flawed, as a sign of leadership leading up to the Copenhagen negotiations.
 
Speaking in Melbourne, …

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Association has called on the federal government to consider establishing a climate change crime investigation group, The Canberra Times reported. The group would look at a range of crises and …