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A regular CE Daily update on what to look out for over the next few weeks nationally and in states and territories – including legislative changes, policy proposals and funding offers.

• WA takes light-handed approach with enforcement
  
• ACT shortlists 10 to provide solar PV, as Qld abandons the field
  
• Waste funding on offer for packaging covenant signatories
  
• Carbon Markets Institute to host symposium
  
• New VEET guidelines out for comment
  
• Waste company fined $20,000

• ACT Assembly passes energy efficiency bill
  
• Federal Government hands out $271m in carbon and biodiversity grants
  
• Build single entry-point for all forms of approval, Hunt says

• Leasing finance now available for LED lighting
  
• Canberra first cab off the rank on e-waste recycling
  
• NSW to revise rules for land application of excavated material

• Experts call for action to halt decline in corporate sustainability reporting
  
• Two ways to target efficiency improvements in major new projects: Energetics
  
• Government announces CFI carbon credits panel
  
• $200 million renewables fund open for business
  
• ActewAGL refers 20MW solar plant; AGL buys Silverton wind farm

Any national energy efficiency scheme is unlikely to be ambitious enough to suit the ACT, which will introduce its own South Australian-style scheme from the start of next year.

Cutting emissions to 40% below 1990 by 2020 will cost each Canberran $216 or deliver them a net benefit of $82.99, depending on how it's done, according to studies released today by the ACT Government.

ACT Assembly passes law to ban plastic bags

* Silex to raise $89 million to fund pilot solar PV power plants

* Sydney councils propose new recycling and composting facilities

* Consultant sought for Western Australia renewables study

* Energetics, EPA Victoria win CitySwitch awards

* New website rates emissions performance of container ships, tankers

* Tasmania seeks comment on state taxes and sustainability

• EPA seeks comment on WA uranium proposal
  
• Wong announces tougher regulations for solar installers
  
• ACT sets out solar access policies

• Insulation installers and sustainability assessors take protest to Parliament
  
• ACT ponders plastic bag ban
  
• Cleantech report urges loan guarantees, accelerated depreciation
  
• Paunch leads to EPA pollution notice