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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

• NSW rejects claim that monitoring bill 'redundant'
  
• We won't wait for Federal climate catch-up, Victorian and ACT ministers assert
  
• Victoria rejects gross feed-in tariff; ACT says medium PV 'the next big wave'
  
• Green Building Council releases pilot tool for public buildings
  
• NSW opens $209 million water recycling plant
  
• Wesfarmers inks carbon offset deal

• Rio Tinto's revised Weipa EPBC referral proposes massive dredging expansion
  
• EPA Victoria successful in all 13 prosecutions in 2009-10
  
• Victoria joins global electric vehicle campaign
  
• ACT releases clean economy scoping study

The ACT Government will expand its feed-in tariff regime to support solar power systems of all sizes – with support for large-scale systems determined through an auction process – and will also cap the total amount of solar power that the scheme can support.

• Queensland Parliament passes geothermal bill
  
• ACT moves to regulate household energy assessors
  
• New homes environmentally efficient only to meet building standards

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

• Bill flags key renewables funding role for ACRE
  
• Coal union: what the mining industry isn't saying on jobs
  
• Shaky start to Senate debate on CPRS bills
  
• ACT aims for carbon neutrality by 2060
  
• WA starts discussion on long-term energy policy

• Wong appoints new climate ambassador
  
• ACT launches nation's 'most generous' feed-in tariff
  
• Aquifer recharge could provide major water security boost, commission says
  
• Deadline imminent for NSW climate program review