The US Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled a final rule for regulating major emitters of greenhouse gases.
Under the Clean Air Act, starting July 2011, sources of at least 100,000 tonnes of emissions a year and any …

A hasty move by California’s emissions regulator to rescind their endorsement of the state’s voluntary offset methodologies dealt a blow to early actors in California’s emission reduction program and may reverberate in global carbon markets.
While …

The U.S. Senate bill aimed at tackling emissions reductions by imposing new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from factories, utilities and vehicles was introduced Wednesday by Democratic Senator John Kerry and Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman.
The legislation …

The Australian government announced plans for a $652 million renewable energy fund, in a reversal of policy direction just weeks after ditching its proposed climate bill.
Speaking in his budget address, Treasurer Wayne Swan said that …

By Euan Sadden
While frequent claims in Australia would have the average person believe Canberra is the first capital to try out emissions trading, a number of schemes – including next door in New Zealand – are …

Some three-quarters of Australians support action to cut carbon emissions before a global agreement is reached, a new poll by Lowy Institute reveals.
However nearly a third of those surveyed do not want to pay for …

The government announced yesterday that it is providing another $40 million for the nation’s first carbon capture project, which is capturing emissions from the Yallorn coal-fired power station in Victoria and convert the gas into cement and …

The government has shelved its emissions trading scheme for at least three years, in the hopes that in that time it will garner enough domestic support to pass it through the Senate.
The Carbon Pollution Reduction …

Big polluters would have pocketed billions in assistance they did not really need under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), new research by an energy institute found.
The analysis by Grattan Institute is the first to …

Carbon curbing pledges under the Copenhagen Accord are likely to doom Earth to warming of 3 degrees Celsius or more, rather than the ideal 2 C,  analysis published by the journal Nature finds.
Researchers at the …