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PFAS is the toxic issue of our era, it has recently been reported that it is even coming down in rain. How did we get in this dire situation? If you want to unravel...

Wednesday 13 December 2023, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) – The COP28 outcome fails key tests on the fast, fair, funded and full phase-out of fossil fuels that the world needs now to avert climate...

  Santos says it will ‘dispose’ of thousands of tonnes of perfectly good steel. The WA State Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Energy, Hydrogen Industry and Industrial Relations, Bill Johnston, should urgently stop Santos...

As the 28th Conference of Parties (COP) on the climate crisis approaches, concerns are mounting about the influence of greenwashing and watering down of commitments by the fossil fuel industry. Here are some buzzwords...

In 2013, our colleagues at Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) released a publication, authored by PENGON (FoE Palestine), GroundWork (FoE South Africa) and FoE Scotland, which details the environmental injustice and violation of...

The Queensland Department of Environment and Science quietly refused the Environmental Authority application on 2nd November 2023. Billionaire Clive Palmer owned Waratah Coal’s 1400 MW coal fired power station proposed for the township of...

In a major development, the federal government has announced it will underwrite the costs of building 9GW of storage and 23GW of renewable generation. Federal energy minister Chris Bowen has used the Energy and...

School Strike 4 Climate are back - and organising another national strike for climate, this friday November 17. They say: 'Despite the devastating impacts on climate disasters, such as bushfires, floods and droughts, across...

Bid to bring cutting edge green tech to Geelong - Oil giant Esso – owned by Exxon Mobile – recently announced plans to decommission its retired oil platforms in the Bass Strait.  From the Geelong...

In July 2023 FoE published a blog on pesticides in Queensland water supplies based on over 70,000 pesticide detections listed on the Queensland Government’s Pesticide Reporting Portal between late 2011 (in some locations) to...