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Queensland's Environment Minister Steven Miles has signalled further changes to the way financial assurances are imposed on major projects and has flagged new efforts to deal with problem wastes.

• EPA reviews chemical control orders
  
• Regulator to clarify 'significant effect'
  
• New environment court commissioners named

A wetlands protection group will seek leave to appeal to the High Court, after an appeal court today ruled the environmental approval for a highway extension was valid.

Origin, APPEA and the Queensland Resources Council have urged the Queensland Parliament not to reinstate environmental offset requirements abolished by the former Newman Government.

A new Federal Government issues paper says there is concern from both activists and oil companies about the current consultation procedures for offshore oil and gas projects and outlines regulatory options to fix them.

Two new reports from BHP Billiton present the company's case for receiving a one-off EPBC approval valid for all its future activities in the Pilbara.

• Parliament passes anti-protest bill
  
• Environmental assessment documents missing, groups say
  
• EPA warns of mine's 'code red' noise breach

The long-term, indirect impacts of a project involving limited land clearing has led a court to declare the development consent invalid.

Some oil and gas companies hold offshore titles in marine reserve areas that are invalid because they lack EPBC consent, and the Federal Government has rushed in a Bill to retrospectively deem them lawful.

• Visy, Rio Tinto, hit with prevention notices
  
• New EPBC guidelines released on indigenous engagement
  
• Details emerge on Victoria's coastal and marine changes