Australian environment laws set for biggest overhaul in decades Just now Lana LamSydney Getty Australia is set to to overhaul its decades-old nature laws with a raft of major reforms including the country's first independent environment regulator. After a years-long deadlock, the Labor government struck a last-minute deal with the minority Greens party to get...

Indian mining company Adani has agreed to end its marathon legal pursuit of environmental activist Ben Pennings. Pennings declared victory on Thursday, after the Queensland supreme court signed off on orders on Wednesday, ending the five-and-a-half-year court battle. The order requires Pennings not to seek to acquire Adani’s confidential information or to ask others to...

Photo: Ørsted Businesses canceled, closed, or scaled back more than $4.4 billion in major factory and clean energy projects from late September through October, according to new data from E2. That brings total private-sector renewable and EV project losses to over $28.7 billion in 2025 alone. Nearly 9,000 current and future jobs were impacted last...