Opposition backs Albanese government’s controversial CO2 sea dumping bill

The Coalition’s environment spokesperson, Jonathon Duniam, said the opposition would support the bill after a ‘painstaking’ approach by successive governments to the changes. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

A bill that will allow carbon dioxide to be pumped into international waters is expected to pass the Senate after the Coalition indicated it would support the legislation.

Greens senators and the independent senator David Pocock used debate in the Senate on Monday to condemn the legislation as a “sham” and “nothing more than greenwashing” for the expansion of offshore gas projects.