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• ACT battery storage tender draws 17 bids
  
• Queensland orders industry to remove legacy firefighting foams
  
• Fourth beef producer approved to earn carbon credits

• Council to earn carbon credits by composting food waste
  
• Regulator to mandate waste data reporting
  
• EPA revises wastewater treatment code

The Coalition says its plan to allocate a tenth of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation's budget for projects that protect the Great Barrier Reef would make it easier for Queensland agribusinesses and utilities to benefit from CEFC support.

• First state government projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• 'Waste to energy' company wins right to earn credits
  
• Top companies send climate message to Canberra and business peers
  
• Use rates and stamp duty to encourage building efficiency: Study

Offset provider Corporate Carbon has successfully registered with the Clean Energy Regulator the first two projects authorised to earn credits by sequestering carbon in soil.

A total of 26 carbon offset projects succeeded in registering with the Clean Energy Regulator in March, compared to only five in the same period last year.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has gazetted a new carbon credits method that will allow companies and other organisations to obtain ERF money for energy efficiency upgrades.

Cattle farmers would be big winners under a new draft carbon credit method, and four Tasmanian forest protection projects that are no longer entitled to earn credits would be rescued under another.

The Federal Government has proposed amendments to Carbon Farming Initiative regulations that will make it possible to earn credits from three new activities, and WA iron ore projects might become a beneficiary.

• Carbon liability changes reflect corporate choices: Clean Energy Regulator
  
• CSIRO study will strengthen NGER reporting, Senate told
  
• 'Ticking the boxes' on soil carbon credits