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Territory EPA challenged after gutting its climate pollution rules
August 22, 2025
The Finocchiaro government has gutted its rules around the regulation of climate pollution in the Northern Territory, just months after scrapping its promised 2030 emissions reduction target.
Read More ShareTerritorians secure two major wins but the fight against deforestation and Big Cotton is far from over
August 08, 2025
Territorians have achieved two significant victories in their fight against large-scale land clearing, with the proponents of the Ord 3 development seeking a federal environmental review of their controversial cotton growing plans at Sprit...
Read More ShareWatershed climate ruling casts doubt over subsidy for Middle Arm
July 25, 2025
Environment Centre NT says a landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice on climate obligations casts doubt over the $1.5 billion federal subsidy for a toxic gas and petrochemical hub planned for Darwin...
Read More ShareGreenwashing dismay as Albanese Government designates carbon dumping off Darwin as a ‘major project’
July 03, 2025
The Environment Centre NT is dismayed that the Albanese Government is spinning one of the world’s largest carbon dumping projects as a ‘low carbon' project while opening the floodgates to massive gas expansion across...
Read More ShareLitchfield expansion shows more can be done to protect the Territory’s iconic nature
June 30, 2025
Conservation groups are celebrating the landmark expansion of Litchfield National Park by 30,000 hectares, while emphasising the need to go further to protect the Territory’s iconic nature from deforestation.
Read More ShareNew report shows the Territory is coming last in the race to renewables
June 24, 2025
A new report shows the Northern Territory has the lowest renewable energy production of any Australian state or Territory and should shift its focus away from polluting gas and re-introduce legislated renewable energy targets. ...
Read More ShareNorthern Territory on track for unprecedented deforestation under new CLP government
June 23, 2025
Leading ecologists and the Environment Centre NT have raised alarm over the approval of unprecedented habitat destruction and deforestation by the new Northern Territory government and called for Federal intervention by Australia’s new Environment...
Read More ShareAlarm as Finocchiaro Government quietly abandons emissions targets
June 19, 2025
The Environment Centre NT is alarmed that the Finocchiaro government has broken its election promise to voters by abandoning all climate emissions targets for the Northern Territory.
Read More ShareLatest blow for DHA shows controversial development at Lee Point should be scrapped
June 17, 2025
Larrakia Traditional Owners and conservation groups are celebrating a tribunal ruling that has paused work on the controversial Lee Point housing development until a legal challenge is heard.
Read More ShareEcologists warn the Northern Territory’s tropical savannas are in danger of collapsing
June 11, 2025
A new report by three of the nation's leading ecologists has warned that the Northern Territory’s savannas and wildlife populations are deteriorating and on a path towards collapse, which could lead to devastating impacts...
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