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• Bowen poised to declare six offshore wind zones
  
• NSW facing "biodiversity credits crunch": Clayton Utz
  
• Climate modelling expert to head federal industry department
  
• ACT introduces Bill to phase-out new residential gas connections

• ACT takes next steps on waste to energy
  
• Victoria issues solar farm planning guidelines
  
• Morrison government shortlists sustainability CRCs

• Victoria to speed quarry approvals
  
• New ACT bill brings forward 'net zero' emissions deadline
  
• Check with insurer when switching refrigerants, department cautions

• NSW identifies new onshore gas sites
  
• ACT Budget signals new emphasis on climate change adaptation
  
• NSW to update pesticides regulation

Some EPAs tell the public a lot about the environmental performance of their licensees and some reveal almost nothing, a Footprint survey has found.

A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.

• WA commits to risk-based regulation
  
• ACT canvasses views on separation distances
  
• Tasmania invites comment on fracking

The ACT Legislative Assembly has passed a bill that gives the EPA power to negotiate enforceable undertakings and clarifies that it can prosecute organisations for actions outside the Territory.

The ACT Government has introduced a bill to the Legislative Assembly that would make it easier to prosecute polluters and allow the EPA to negotiate enforceable undertakings with them.

A high-level meeting between senior state environmental bureaucrats and representatives of Australia's largest companies has discussed a range of issues that could be regulated more consistently across the nation.