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- Spending billions on unclean, risky energy? What a nuclear waste | Letters 13 June 2025Readers respond to the energy secretary’s announcement of the new £14.2bn Sizewell C power station and Rolls-Royce winning the contract to develop small modular reactorsRolls-Royce pressurised water reactors have powered British nuclear subs since 1966, but small modular reactors (SMRs) aren’t yet proven at scale anywhere on land (Rolls-Royce named winning bidder for UK small […]Guardian Staff
- Coalition MPs should embrace net zero policies or risk alienating voters, Liberal senator warns 13 June 2025Climate change is real and Coalition’s job is to determine how to cut emissions, shadow assistant minister to opposition leader Maria Kovacic saysKovacic on what the Coalition needs to move forward – Australian Politics podcastAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCoalition MPs should stop questioning climate […]Tom McIlroy Chief political correspondent
- Senator Maria Kovacic on what the Coalition needs to move forward - podcast 13 June 2025‘If we don’t listen it’s not going to get better for us – it will get worse,’ says the NSW Liberal moderate and newly appointed shadow assistant minister, joining Guardian Australia’s chief political correspondent Tom McIlroy to discuss her party’s futureRead more: Continue reading...Presented by Tom McIlroy, produced by Shadi Khan Saif . The executive producer is Miles Martignoni
- As Australia campaigns for Cop31 hosting rights, it’s time to stop talking and start doing | Bill Hare 12 June 2025The 43% emission reduction target is not aligned with the Paris agreement – it should be at least 59%Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereAustralian officials are gearing up for next week’s mid-year climate talks in Bonn where they’ll be going full tilt lobbying other governments to support […]Bill Hare
- What’s behind Keir Starmer’s decision to back nuclear power? 10 June 2025Does the UK need nuclear to keep the lights on? What has big tech got to do with it? And do the costs stack up?Keir Starmer has committed the UK to its first significant stake in a new nuclear power plant since the 1980s.The decision to invest almost £18bn of taxpayer money into the Sizewell […]Jillian Ambrose Energy correspondent