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• New environmental watchdog to get legal teeth after Brexit

  19-12-2018 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  The new Office for Environmental Protection will have similar enforcement powers to EU regulators.
  
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• Post-Brexit green watchdog could sue ministers, says Gove

  19-12-2018 19:50
  But Green groups say proposals will mean weaker protection for nature after UK leaves EUA new post-Brexit green watchdog will be able to sue the government over environmental failings, according to new plans set out by Michael Gove. However, campaign groups have questioned the independence of the body because the chairperson and budget will be decided by the environment secretary.The establishment of the watchdog is part of the draft environment bill, which also puts principles such as “th
  
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• Life on the land with the Lama Lama rangers – a picture essay

  19-12-2018 18:00
  The Indigenous rangers in this Cape York national park are driven by their love of country and deep satisfaction to be finally back on their homelandsMy favourite national park: tell us why it’s important to you
  It’s 8am and the Indigenous female rangers on Lama Lama country are rounding up the younger rangers and casual workers for the day’s fencing. It’s a huge undertaking: kilometres of fencing to keep the cattle and pigs out of the more sensitive areas of a vast natio
  
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• European Coca-Cola bottler to pioneer carbon capture technology

  19-12-2018 17:31
  A Swiss-based Coca-Cola bottling company is set to introduce air-captured CO2 use to the beverage industry to help reduce costs and achieve its long-term climate targets.
  
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• Nasa hack exposes space agency staff's data

  19-12-2018 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  The US space agency says cyber-thieves may have compromised two of its computer servers.
  
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• EU coal subsidy phase-out 'completely inconsistent with Paris deal'

  19-12-2018 12:36
  Stay of execution for coal subsidies has been heavily criticised by climate analystsAn EU deal to slowly phase out coal subsidies is “completely inconsistent” with the bloc’s Paris climate agreement commitments, analysts say.Marathon negotiations ended early on Wednesday with a benchmark CO2 emissions standard of 550 grams per kWh for all European power plants by 2025. But coal-dependent Poland secured a loophole allowing countries another year to negotiate new “capacity
  
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• EU fishing quotas pose risk to some stocks, say campaigners

  19-12-2018 12:14
  Ministers setting limits for 2019 accused of ignoring scientific advice on overfishingFisheries ministers meeting in Brussels to decide EU quotas for next year have set some stocks within levels scientists deem sustainable but left many others vulnerable to overfishing.The ministers also said there would be a review of the planned ban on the discarding of edible fish at sea, which could, in effect, mean the wasteful practice is allowed to continue despite an eight-year battle to end it. Continue
  
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• What would Jesus do? Talking with evangelicals about climate change

  19-12-2018 12:00
  In our new column about the American south and climate change, we go towards Christians who have been resistant to ideas of environmental stewardship - perhaps it’s a message they need to hear in their own termsI was, frankly, nervous about speaking to people of faith in the south about climate change. I wrestled with my own preconceived notions and past experiences, and was surprised when conversations took inspiring, if not transcendent, turns.Secular as I am now, I still think fondly of
  
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• edie's next 30-minute masterclass: How to build business resilience

  19-12-2018 11:29
  Sustainability professionals seeking to build business resilience in the face of uncertain economic and environmental pressures are invited to take part in a free, online masterclass taking place on Wednesday 30 January 2019.
  
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• Solar households expected to give away power to energy firms

  19-12-2018 11:19
  The Government has said households that install solar panels in the future will be expected to give away unused clean power for free to energy firms earning multi-million-pound profits, provoking outrage from green campaigners.
  
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• From puddings to packaging: Inside the UK's Christmas waste problem

  19-12-2018 10:56
  It's the most wonderful time of the year - and also one of the most wasteful. With Christmas less than a week away, edie rounds-up some of the most shocking sustainability statistics of the festive season.
  
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• Elon Musk unveils prototype high-speed LA transport tunnel

  19-12-2018 10:27 via bbc.co.uk
  The entrepreneur says his system will see modified electric cars travel at high speed underground.
  
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• EU forges deal on coal phase-out, with special Polish clause

  19-12-2018 10:20
  European Union legislators reached agreement in the early hours of Wednesday (19 December) over a proposed reform of electricity market rules that includes a 2025 cut-off date for coal subsidies, and a special clause for Poland.
  
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• Weather stops plastic waste car reaching South Pole

  19-12-2018 03:23 via bbc.co.uk
  A car made from waste plastic has been forced to abort its mission to the South Pole because of bad weather.
  
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• Wooden clothes?

  19-12-2018 01:15 via bbc.co.uk
  A university in Finland has invented a process to turn waste wood into material for clothing.
  
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