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• Deadline looms for comment on RET exemption regulations
  
• Government calls for IPCC nominations
  
• WA waste funding on offer
  
• National framework proposed for 'agvet' chemicals
  
• Chemicals group urges Australian ban on widely-used plasticiser
  
• EDO WA seeks outreach solicitor

• Rudd to BCA: climate fight won't be cost free
  
• Direct some permit revenue to developing countries, Climate Institute says
  
• NSW gazettes two revised regulations

The federal, state and territory governments should create a new standard-setting body to manage the environmental impact of chemicals, according to a Productivity Commission report released today.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and state and territory leaders yesterday agreed to finalise by the end of the year a framework for identifying regions suitable for strategic assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

COAG also agreed to implement before the end of the year a suite of reforms to the regulation of chemicals.

NSW flags assessment fee hike for chemical destruction technologies

* Wong steers steady course in international talks

* Australia's forests offset 9% of emissions, government report says

* Turnbull slams solar rebate means test

* National Pollutant Inventory overhauls fuel tanks manual

* New Zealand Budget flags major push on energy efficient homes

* Pew Centre looks at trading lessons from the EU

• Tests finds patchy compliance with energy performance standards
  
• Emissions should peak in 2010, say WWF and IAG
  
• Productivity Commission floats chemicals reforms