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• Revamped vehicle emissions to deliver a $249m net benefit to Victoria
  
• WA mining regulator details priorities
  
• NSW declares two more sites contaminated

• AGL penalised for not making monitoring data public
  
• Environment ministers detail scope of packaging waste RIS
  
• WA mines department issues rehabilitation fund guidance

• Queensland rules out plastic bag charges or bans
  
• NSW EPA approves council plan to manage contamination
  
• NSW issues new pollution orders to Nestlé
  
• Canola mill instructed to investigate odours
  
• Fuel spill at Caltex terminal

The temporary shut-down of Orica's Kooragang Island plant after a hexavalent chromium discharge cost the company $90m, according to half-year results issued today, which also reveal it has provided $190m for various clean-up and environmental projects.

• Vapour release triggers evacuations, costs Nuplex $173,000
  
• Veolia gains limited leeway on legacy chromium contamination
  
• NSW environment court orders Ausgrid to pay $40,000

The NSW Government has announced environmental audits of 42 of the state's major hazard facilities that store large quantities of toxic, hazardous or dangerous substances.

Chemical company Orica, explosives supplier Dyno Nobel and miner Centennial Coal are among 53 companies placed on Pollution Reduction Programs following inspections of businesses in NSW's Hunter region.

The NSW Government will strengthen licenceholder obligations to notify pollution incidents and has imposed new requirements on Orica, after criticism of delays in informing residents of a hexavalent chromium discharge to the air from the company's Kooragang Island ammonia plant.

Mining company Xstrata's persistent claim that high lead levels in the Mount Isa area are naturally occurring is "unfeasible and insulting", according to the author of a new research study.

• Xstrata stalling on Mount Isa lead, says lawyer
  
• Forum failure an indictment of Rudd approach, Greens say
  
• Report warns of ’conflict’ between environment and safety in oil and gas projects
  
• Garrett gazettes ozone protection regulations
  
• Energy officials take second shot at smart meter rules
  
• Queensland Government launches recycling policy for building materials
  
• Gore, Pachauri and Flannery to speak to Sydney youth summit