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Built in the 1960s, each chimney contained around 50kg of asbestos but owner Engie says there is ‘no risk’ it will be airborne

Eight chimneys at Victoria’s defunct, coal-fired Hazelwood power station have been demolished. Built in the 1960s, they operated for more than half a century before the brown coal-fuelled power station was shut down in...

Political editor Katharine Murphy talks to environment editor Adam Morton about a huge week in energy policy and why Australia appears to be making an energy roadmap without a destination

Guardian Australia’s environment editor, Adam Morton, joins political editor, Katharine Murphy, to discuss the week’s news on energy policy. From the release of the government’s technology roadmap to a leaked document...

David Littleproud said reports that coal shipments had been cancelled would not ‘disrupt our exports’ and was not retaliatory

Michael McCormack says trade minister and diplomats are trying to fix the issue

Subsidies should focus on early-stage clean technologies not energy sources that are already mature or commercial, Energy Council says

Deputy premier says project will bring jobs to Snowy Mountains region, but conservationists have labelled it ‘environmental vandalism’

Survey by Shenhua environmental consultant shows decline of 87% in koala numbers since 2012-13, as campaigners plead for impact of bushfires to weigh on mine conditions

Small modular reactors ‘have potential’, investment roadmap discussion paper says

Survey by Shenhua environmental consultant shows decline of 87% in koala numbers since 2012-13, as campaigners plead for impact of bushfires to weigh on mine conditions

Ten years ago politicians used to talk up the virtues of gas as a transitional fuel. But that was 10 years ago

Marsh talks the talk when it comes to climate risk, but by working with Adani it is walking us all into a dangerous future

Energy minister says Coalition’s approach is ‘not to have a target without a plan’ to achieve it

Marsh, understood to be working on the Carmichael project, is being hit with online campaign amid coronavirus