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Electric garbage truck trialled in regional Australia drives 'like a limousine' ( www.abc.net.au )

Untapped rooftop solar: Australian homes could save $9.3 billion a year, UNSW study finds - One Step Off The Grid ( onestepoffthegrid.com.au )

Australian households could save $9.3 billion on energy bills each year by investing in the untapped solar potential of residential rooftops across the nation, a new report has found....

If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool - One Step Off The Grid ( onestepoffthegrid.com.au )

Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls ( reneweconomy.com.au )

National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....

Labor unveils watered-down fuel efficiency standard that eases emission rules for large SUVs ( www.theguardian.com )

Councils from Paris to the Yarra want to use parking fees to clamp down on big SUVs. What are they doing and will they succeed? ( www.theguardian.com )

Behind the grand plans for nuclear is a potentially fatal flaw. And it's on millions of roofs ( www.abc.net.au )

Tesla won’t free up use of its batteries, leaving owners unable to reap full benefits ( www.theguardian.com )

Only 60% of Australians accept ‘climate disruption’ is human-caused, global poll finds ( www.theguardian.com )

Australia has one of the lowest rates of people acknowledging that 'climate disruption' is caused by humans...

Waste sector fears 'catastrophic' electric vehicle battery fires, as first wave of EV batteries reach end-of-life ( www.abc.net.au )

I'm not sure how we're supposed to believe that disposal of nuclear waste won't be a problem when we can't manage systems to properly deal with the waste we are creating now.

Locals concerned over SunCable proposal to manufacture subsea cable in northern Tasmania ( www.abc.net.au )

Australia announces new plan for net zero: Extract gas to 2050 and beyond ( www.sbs.com.au )

Could spending a billion dollars actually bring solar manufacturing back to Australia? It’s worth a shot ( theconversation.com )

Offshore windfarm zone off Illawarra coast given green light in bid to ‘power Australia’s clean energy future’ ( www.theguardian.com )

Coles and Woolworths given more time to deal with thousands of tonnes of stranded REDcycle plastic waste ( www.abc.net.au )

'Living wonders' group loses court appeal to consider climate impacts for coal, gas approvals ( www.abc.net.au )

Methane emissions: Australian cattle industry suggests shift from net zero target to ‘climate neutral’ approach ( www.theguardian.com )

Why the kookaburra’s iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced ( theconversation.com )

As climate change results in more bushfires and we continue to clear-fell old habitat trees, the fate of the laughing kookaburra – our icon of the ages – could be sealed. That once-ubiquitous call will be heard no more.

Nuclear slow and expensive, renewables fast and cheap: Bowen slaps down Coalition “fantasy” ( reneweconomy.com.au )

Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has again slammed the federal Coalition’s “nuclear fantasy”, describing it as a deliberate distraction and the latest “desperate effort” to keep the culture war over energy and climate alive....

Scaremongering won’t keep Australia’s lights on. Picking up the pace of energy transition will | Dylan McConnell ( www.theguardian.com )

“Picking losers:” Choosing nuclear over renewables and efficiency will make climate crisis worse ( reneweconomy.com.au )

One of the world’s leading energy experts, and the man dubbed the “Einstein of energy efficiency” has debunked the claims that nuclear energy is essential to meet climate goals, saying that choosing nuclear over renewables and energy efficiency will make the climate crisis worse....

Australia's tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived—and we shouldn't be burning them ( phys.org )

Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia's forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people....