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Commentary: States and the EPA can still regulate greenhouse gases, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling

Last month's decision by the Supreme Court striking down the Clean Power Plan is a blow to the fight against climate change, but it’s not a total knockout. Other existing laws protecting the environment are untouched by the decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. The broad powers of…

Los Angeles Times

Sea rises in storm surge at Bar Beach

Topics: Amazing photos of Bar Beach in heavy seas, and a public forum on energy.

Newcastle Herald

Govt asked to review fossil fuel projects

A Queensland environment group is trying to force the re-examination of the biggest fossil fuel projects planned in Australia.

AAP

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Morning mail: the Uber files, female voters drift from Coalition, Djokovic takes Wimbledon

Monday: An unprecedented leak has laid bare the inside story of the tech giant. Plus: could positive thinking be making us feel less secure?

The Guardian - AU

Upper Hunter residents say coal mine rehab should include replanting woodland and forest corridors

Should coal mining companies pay into a long-term fund for environmental monitoring and protection post-coal mine closure be? Poll results

Newcastle Herald

Alan Kohler: Look to the west to find out how to get the end of coal right

The state governments of NSW, Queensland and Victoria should look to Collie in WA for a model of how to transition away from coal.

The New Daily

Labor asked to reassess decisions about coal and gas projects made by previous governments

One expert says that, if the application reaches the courts, it may set an important precedent, forcing the consideration of climate change in assessments of fossil fuel projects.

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Labor faces decisions on approval of up to 27 coal developments including greenfield mines

Environment minister Tanya Plibersek says she would be ‘carefully considering’ projects referred under EPBC Act

The Guardian - AU

The state doesn't owe mining towns a thing

Newcastle Herald readers have their say.

Newcastle Herald

Inflammatory statements by Coalition ministers soured China relationship: Wang

China’s Foreign Minister told Penny Wong that inflammatory statements by Coalition ministers soured diplomatic relations with Australia.

The New Daily

Telangana: Rains wreak havoc, two washed away in Asifabad

HYDERABAD: Incessant rains continued to wreak havoc in several districts of the state on Saturday. While two persons were swept away in swirling flood water in Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district, streams, lakes and rivulets overflowed at several places. Road links got snapped due to heavy rains while production in Singareni…

The Times of India

Explained | The background of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on limiting the Environmental Protection Agency

The U.S. Supreme Court limited how the anti-pollution law can be used to control carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by a 6-3 majority.

The Hindu

The Supreme Court handed coal power a win. But experts say that won't save it

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices sided with coal companies in a recent case over the EPA's authority. But market forces have pushed the ongoing decline of coal power.

WEKU

India may increase coal imports from Russia to 40 MT by 2035: Report

NEW DELHI: India is ready to raise thermal and coking coal imports from Russia to 40 million tonnes by 2035, provided logistics issues are fixed, a Russian official said.

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Germany to reactivate coal power plants as Russia curbs gas flow

Parliament approves measures to use mothballed sites to produce electricity and preserve gas supplies

Newcastle Herald

Coal v foals: $5b equine industry fights for survival

Equine industry joins fight against "new mine" for Upper Hunter

Newcastle Herald

Is this Hunter man the longest working coal miner ever?

Work never caused him stress. He loved being outdoors.

Reuters

Japan election may be tailwind for nuclear restarts as public mood shifts

Japan's push to restart nuclear reactors, shut down after the Fukushima disaster a decade ago, could get a tailwind as the governing coalition looks set for gains in a national election on Sunday.

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The Guardian - AU

‘Far from adequate’: former Pacific leaders group urges Australia to increase 43% emissions cut

Pacific Elders Voice also called for Australia to end gas and coal developments ahead of Pacific Islands Forum

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As the Durham Miners' Gala returns, watch film of the annual event in its 1950s heyday

Our film clip, 'Durham Miners’ Gala 1951-1955', recalls the event as it was when coal was king and the yearly gala was a celebration of the strength and solidarity of the mining industry

Newcastle Herald

Is the Hunter getting its fair share of a $3.6 billion royalties bonanza?

This year an extra $2.2 billion in royalties revenue will fill the state's coffers, much of it from the Hunter Valley

Newcastle Herald

Another 22 years of coal queried in Mount Pleasant mine extension hearing

Climate change on the agenda at planning commission's consideration of massive Hunter Valley coal mine expansion plan

The Guardian - AU

Conservatives blame the energy crisis on net zero climate goals – but what is really going on?

A range of factors is behind the rise in electricity prices, but net zero isn’t one of them

AAP

Qld govt downplays Japanese ambassador

Queensland's resources minister has brushed off the Japanese ambassador's criticism of the state government's recent coal tax hike.

ABC News

Climate modelling abandoned by Abbott nine years ago reinstated by Labor government

For almost a decade under the former Coalition government, Treasury did not model the economic impacts of climate change. The new government is ordering the practice to be resumed.

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