Royce Kurmelovs

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Royce Kurmelovs

Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. This is the result of a new peer-review study published in the journal Nature that sought to establish a method that would allow courts to quantify the economic loss caused by fossil fuel producers for one kind of climate impact – extreme heat.

1 week ago | reneweconomy.com.au | Royce Kurmelovs

The offshore oil and gas regulator engaged in a “box ticking” exercise when it waved through Woodside’s environmental approval on its $16.5bn Scarborough gas project, a new legal action claims. Doctors for the Environment Australia filed in federal court last Wednesday to challenge a decision by the National offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) to grant environmental approval to Woodside.

1 week ago | reneweconomy.com.au | Royce Kurmelovs

A proposal to expand a Bowen Basin coal mine that would add millions of additional CO2 emissions, clear endangered species habitat and create risks for the Great Barrier Reef is facing a legal challenge from a Queensland environmental group.

2 weeks ago | reneweconomy.com.au | Royce Kurmelovs

The Labor government’s multi-billion-dollar plan to help recover Australian manufacturing by encouraging investment that will help the transition to a zero-carbon economy appears to have won support from corporate Australia according to a new analysis. InfluenceMap, a UK-based climate thinktank, analysed 185 consultation submissions from 58 companies and their industry associations to gauge how they were responding to the government’s Future Made in Australia Plan.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Royce Kurmelovs

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featurePeter Dutton will launch a last-minute blitz of seats in his final week of the campaign, targeting marginal electorates across the country but snubbing the nation’s capital. The opposition leader has dipped further in the polls but is attempting to target 28 seats in just six days as part of the Coalition’s last-ditch but “high energy” attempt to win a majority government.