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On Australia’s climate and extinction crises, the major parties both have questions to answer | Present Tense

The Guardian: Energy

The Coalition has no climate policy. Not for things that will happen – let’s not get ahead of ourselves – but for questions that could be addressed if the country is to treat the climate and extinction crises as seriously as our leaders claim they do.

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Nuclear Waste And The Path Forward

R-Squared Energy

In the previous article , I discussed some of the developments that are taking place to make nuclear power safer, such that a major accident like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima are simply no longer possible. In fact, nuclear plants have simply stored the waste on site, but that isn’t a long-term solution to the problem.

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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

GreenTechMedia

Exelon may be forced to close its Illinois nuclear plants if state legislation is not passed to bolster their eroding financial prospects. But subsidiary utility Commonwealth Edison’s involvement in a bribery scandal has complicated this and other key policy efforts in its home state.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. ” Henry Eviston, WWF European Policy Office.

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Truss brands climate activists part of 'anti-growth coalition' in protest-disrupted conference speech

Business Green

Liz Truss restated her commitment to net zero, renewables, and nuclear power, as well as North Sea oil and gas, in her keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference this morning, which saw the embattled Prime Minister decry climate activists who briefly interrupted her from the audience as "anti-growth". he asked on Twitter.

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National Infrastructure Commission: Government must prioritise energy flexibility in 2020

Business Green

The body also welcomed the passing of the UK's 2050 net zero target into law last year, as well as the government's plans to build 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030 and bring forward its proposed fossil fuel car phase out to 2035 at the latest.

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The Net Zero Review: Everything businesses need to know

Business Green

It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. All that is needed is more political urgency, policy clarity, and real world action to mobilise investment, drive clean tech deployment, accelerate the transition.