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• NSW Lower House accepts Legislative Council changes to environmental bill
  
• Consumer and advocacy groups launch carbon price calculator
  
• Climate change could boost need for extra peak power, climate department warns

Submissions to a Victorian planning review reveal that Mobil wants greater legal force given to buffer distances around hazardous facilities, while the EPA agrees more needs to be done to separate incompatible land uses and is developing a new 'separation distances' protocol.

A WA tribunal says environment department resource constraints and a lack of air quality data warrant putting on hold a housing project near Alcoa's bauxite residue storage areas, even though the development would be consistent with planning rules.

The NSW Government will fine companies up to $2 million if they don't immediately notify pollution incidents Premier Barry O'Farrell said today, while a new independent EPA will be responsible for licensing and enforcement.

A NSW Greens bill introduced after Orica's tardy notification of a chromium discharge goes too far, says the Australian Sustainable Business Group, which says the State Government is tightening its approach to compliance on several fronts.

• Site owner 'untruthful, selfish, grossly irresponsible', judge says
  
• Tribunal crushes council's veto of construction waste recycling plant
  
• Court orders water utility to pay $63,000
  
• Changes at Sustainable Business Australia

• WA EPA recommends minister reject second mine
  
• Study finds no cancer link to Victorian hazardous waste landfill
  
• BP Solar releases EIS for $600 million, 150MW PV plant
  
• Climate department issues updated budget estimates

Griffin Power has had another win in its plans to add 458MW of new coal-fired generating capacity to the Bluewaters power station near Collie, with WA's Environment Minister Bill Marmion agreeing to delete an air quality condition from the project approval.

• Woolworths EPBC Act referral outlines threatened species offset plan
  
• Rudd: No 'magic wand' to introduce a CPRS
  
• Tasmania holds information sessions on underground fuel tanks
  
• Brisbane workshop to address road transport pollution