AI data centres: Less haste, better protection for nature and communities

As the new National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA) begins its work from today, the Australian Conservation Foundation has urged it to use its powers and enforce the rules.

The Australian Conservation Foundation has called for a Senate inquiry into the fossil fuel industry’s engagement with children and young people after an investigation revealed industry programs could be reaching millions of Australian children.

For the first time in eight years, the highly controversial WA Browse gas project is open to public comment after Environment Minister Murray Watt accepted ACF’s reconsideration request as valid.  

The Australian Conservation Foundation has joined calls for the Albanese government to urgently set up a $200m emergency fund to protect Australian wildlife from the bird flu outbreak, which has reached the Australian mainland.

ACF statement in response to news the Commonwealth and Tasmanian governments are in discussions to develop a bilateral agreement under the national nature law to allow native forest logging to continue after the Regional Forest Agreements exemption ends in July 2027.

In an Australian first, the Federal Court has accepted the application by a UN Special Rapporteur to make submissions in the Australian Conservation Foundation’s legal challenges to the extension of Woodside’s controversial North West Shelf gas hub.

The budget contains at least seven times more spending on initiatives that damage nature and the climate than it allocates to climate and nature protection.

Despite the company's latest PR push, Woodside’s Browse proposal is an economic and environmental disaster that should be stopped in its tracks.

With the federal budget under a week away, the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted five things the government should spend money on to protect nature and the climate – and five moves that would save a heap of public money.

As now proposed, the legal test for consistency with the standard will be met if a developer merely confirms they complied with some principles and followed certain processes. There’s no requirement for these processes to actually deliver the outcomes and objectives expressed in the standard.  

The same corporations driving the cost-of-living crisis are driving the climate crisis. Australian gas sent offshore returns home as bushfires, heatwaves, floods and cyclones.

Planned ‘protection statements’ for five threatened species are a welcome but modest step, while much more is needed to protect and recover threatened species in next month’s federal budget.

Conservationists and Traditional Owners are rallying outside today’s annual general meeting of gas giant Woodside in Perth.

As gas giant Santos holds its annual general meeting in Adelaide, new polling shows nearly three in four South Australians believe gas companies should be made to pay for environmental damage they cause.

This terrible oil refinery fire, which is now spewing toxic smoke into Geelong and surrounds, is another reminder that fossil fuels are risky, polluting and dangerous.