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The Hydro X Prix will consist of two rounds across Saturday and Sunday, located inside the restored former Glenmuckloch opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway, which is being transformed into a Pumped Storage Hydropower plant and wind farm.

On May 11, 2023, the Biden administration proposed new regulations to curb carbon pollution from existing power plants. The new rules replace the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which was proposed in 2015 but ran into multiple legal challenges and never took effect. Nonetheless, in a high-profile 2022 ruling, West…

Consultants advised providers to exploit subsidies before rule changes, while Labor faces wrath over green light for Queensland scheme

Environment activists condemn expected decision by Tanya Plibersek to give green light to Isaac River project in central Queensland

The Biden administration proposed new power plant rules on May 11, 2023, that have the potential to be among the most stringent federal policy measures on coal, oil and gas power plants the United States has ever introduced.

The Biden administration is proposing new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to reduce planet-warming pollution from the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change

Coal and natural gas-fired power plants would have to dramatically reduce the climate-warming greenhouse gasses they emit under proposed federal rules.

Environmental groups laud the regulation, which would advance clean power in the US – if it survives expected legal challenges

A central Queensland mine operator has been cleared of breaching workplace health and safety laws over the death of a miner, despite a court ruling there was an "obvious" risk with faulty machinery.