STA, 23 August 2018 - In a bid to make Slovenia's energy sector more efficient, the emerging government coalition will promote renewable sources of energy, chiefly water energy on the Sava river. Its environmental policy will, meanwhile, seek to keep Slovenia green but also attractive to sustainable investors. A green tax reform is also planned. 

STA, 11 August - The newspaper Večer wonders why anyone should care about cleaning up the soil in Celje area if the locals are not concerned about their environment being heavily polluted by cadmium. 

STA, 19 July 2018 - The Slovenian Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning has proposed culling 200 bears and 11 wolves to cope with increasing populations, inviting ire from activists. 

STA, 9 July 2018 - Slovenia is in the eight spot among the 156 surveyed countries in terms of the realisation of the 2030 UN agenda for sustainable development, according to the Global Responsibility report which measures countries' performance in meeting a total of 17 objectives of the agenda. 

We got in touch with the good people at Morigenos, the Slovenian Marine Mammal Society, and asked about their work with these lesser known residents of Piran. 

Four students from St. Stanislav’s Institution: Diocesan Classical Gymnasium, Ljubljana, have won Honourable Mention for their entry in an international student video contest that aims to highlight various issues associated with the world’s growing population.

Instruct your children not to touch the bait, and put your dog on a leash. 

STA, 19 April 2018 – In an attempt to encourage people to start driving electric cars, two motorists drove from Lendava (NE) to Portorož (SW) on Thursday, completing the 300-km route without a single filling break. Ignac Završnik, the president of the association E-Mobility Slovenia, said the trip undermined the prejudice that one cannot get far with an e-car. 

Ljubljana is clean and green, but as anyone who does the housework knows, a place doesn’t stay in shape by itself, much less a city or a river. 

A significant progress would be made if the candidates for the "parliamentary bus" at least started seriously talking about environmental and social justice, but this is very unlikely considering what has been said so far, the newspaper Večer says in Wednesday's commentary.