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• NT government looks for fracking experts to join EPA board
  
• NSW offers 'fixed-rate' payments for perpetual conservation
  
• New report on pesticides regulator

• Audit reveals serious deficiencies at pesticides regulator
  
• Supreme Court rejects mining lease challenge
  
• Deloitte 'runs the numbers' on Great Barrier Reef

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

Environment ministers have agreed to strengthen controls on particle pollution, speed up work on a national clean air agreement and establish a national standard for the environmental management of chemicals.

A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.

• Hunt finalises new EPBC agreements with two states
  
• Queensland EPBC bilateral to be amended
  
• EPA MoU with Sydney Water seeks cooperation on 'emerging issues'

Efforts by WWF to ban the use of diuron in the Great Barrier Reef catchment have failed, with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ruling it lacks jurisdiction to review the merits of a decision by the agvet chemicals regulator to permit restricted application by sugarcane growers.

• Greens Senator targets Reef dredging
  
• WA lifts approval conditions on industrial estate
  
• NICNAS takes second look at anti-algal blooms chemical

• Coal union chief to ACTU Congress – we can reshape economy
  
• CO2 Australia inks deal with ACT utility
  
• NSW mining ban bill defeated
  
• Environment groups welcome Queensland farm run-off legislation
  
• U.S. climate envoy heads to China, new summary out of Waxman bill

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.