{"id":752640,"date":"2026-06-22T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:14:09","slug":"minerals-council-of-australia-and-the-australia-institute-clash-over-carbon-offsets-and-emissions-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752640\/","title":{"rendered":"MInerals Council of Australia and The Australia Institute clash over carbon offsets and emissions policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mining and environment groups have fired their first shots ahead of a major new review of the government\u2019s flagship emissions policy set to begin in the coming weeks, opening yet another frontier of the climate policy debate.<\/p>\n<p>Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Tania Constable disputed \u201cridiculous\u201d claims by the left-wing Australia Institute that the mining industry engages in questionable conduct to get around the safeguard mechanism, which some critics consider a de facto carbon tax on large polluters.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mining and environment groups have fired their first shots ahead of a major new review of the government\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-752640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}