Highlights include new bills in Victoria, a new WA greenhouse policy and a $263,500 land clearing penalty. Jobs include posts with Alinta, consultancy EY, EPA Victoria and Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
Highlights include court rulings in two states, plastics discussion papers, and EPA guidance on Victoria's new general environmental duty. Jobs include leader of a zero net carbon homes program, and a senior PFAS post.
Labor and the Greens have called for coastal retreat strategies, post-construction risk reviews of infrastructure, and liability exemptions for councils, in a new Senate climate change report.
The Turnbull government's 2018 environmental agenda will affect importers of new chemicals, companies required to report pollutant emissions, suppliers of products that lead to problem wastes, and facilities that emit large quantities of greenhouse gas.
The federal government has significantly expanded the scope of its carbon neutral certification scheme, partly through a partnership arrangement with other organisations.
If the government backs away from its proposed light vehicle efficiency standard, industry will have to make deeper carbon cuts and electric vehicle take-up will be slowed, according to ClimateWorks and AGL.