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• 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

• 'Best practice' test crucial for coal gasification power plant
  
• Queensland details approach to enforcement
  
• WA finalises approval conditions for BHPB gas project; iron ore mine
  
• Environment group compares Hazelwood power plant election commitments

• 'Halt' order puts business in jeopardy, coal gasification company warns
  
• Gillard Government reintroduces environment bills
  
• WA Minister finalises approval conditions for new Rio Tinto port
  
• WA Conservation Council appeals clearing permit for coal exploration
  
• Wild Rivers Act to face Federal inquiry

• WA exempts aquaculture industry from environmental legislation
  
• Gladstone dredging project receives green light
  
• Coalition to suspend marine sanctuaries planning processes
  
• Greens propose tougher vehicle emission standards
  
• South Hobart council to buy energy use monitors in bulk for residents

A company that this month won consent for a proposed 201-home project on condition that it dismantle and move houses if coastal erosion encroaches has potentially had its plans thrown into disarray by a court ruling that it unlawfully cleared the site and an order to remediate it.

Environmental lawyer Chris McGrath has questioned the merits of a new EPBC Act trigger proposed by a major inquiry into the Act, but has welcomed its call for a new commission to advise the environment minister on approvals and related matters.

*Victoria committed to improving market signals

*CPRS burden to constitute 15% of typical NSW residential power bill

*Zerogen CCS power plant project ready for EIS

*Solar Systems administrators hopeful of sale

• Sustainability index dumps OneSteel, adds Boral
  
• No call for EPBC Act 'greenhouse trigger', says AIGN
  
• Court clears way for expansion of Lake Cowal mine
  
• Human actions override Arctic cooling trend

WA Environment Minister Donna Faragher has instructed the EPA to reassess a plan for a massive salt farm in a wetland of national importance which is part-backed by the same corporate group responsible for the operation leaking oil off the WA coast.