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Fossil fuels

June 2026

  • Martuwarra Fitzroy River in WA’s Kimberley region

    Documents reveal concerns over US company’s proposed gas fracking in WA’s Kimberley region

  • A woman plugging in an electric car

    ‘Electrify daily life’, urges Cop31 host

  • People holding signs in protest against a pipeline

    World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds

  • Senator David Pocock

    double quotation markIf Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

    David Pocock

  • Trump uses wartime powers to dole out $700m to ‘clean, beautiful’ coal

  • ‘Gateway to full-scale fracking’: Santos could drill for new gas in Northern Territory within weeks

  • There are thousands of dirty old drill sites in Colorado. The state gave oil firms a $1bn pass

  • Gas flares at a Woodside gas processing plant

    Gas usage has peaked and is now in structural decline across Australia, report says

    Grattan Institute calls on Labor to set policies that will further reduce the use of gas in order to meet net zero targets
  • The main gas pipeline at the large gas terminal plant in North Norfolk.

    The Guardian view on energy shocks: winter is coming – and Labour needs a plan

  • Detail of cable management on a data centre server room

    ‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says

  • Aerial view of Shotwick solar energy park with rows of blue solar panels stretching across flat grassland

    Blair’s fossil fuel ideas ‘bizarre’ in face of energy and climate crises, experts say

  • Photomontage of an egret, an oil refinery, a bus and two men by a motorbike filling jerrycans on a background of the Jamaican flag

    The Latin and Caribbean oil rush
    The race for oil: will Jamaica be the next country to drill and what does that mean for its green pledges?

  • a woman uses an umbrella for shade outside Notre-Dame Cathedral

    Extreme heat in Europe ‘a brutal reminder’ of climate crisis, UN chief says

    Simon Stiell said burning fossil fuels was driving intense heatwaves as UK and France broke temperature records on consecutive days
  • David Pocock

    The BHP files
    BHP ‘laughing’ at Australia’s key climate policy while pocketing hundreds of millions in tax breaks, Pocock says

    Outrage as leaked documents reveal mining giant’s backsliding on commitments to slash emissions
  • The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned

    Decommissioned power station's chimneys crash to the ground in livestreamed demolition – video

    The two giant chimney stacks crashed to the ground, three years after the defunct Liddell coal-fired power plant was decommissioned
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