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Rehabilitating abandoned and shoddily-closed mines is likely to cost $1 billion, the Northern Territory Government estimates, prompting it to introduce a new levy on the mining industry.

• Former NSW environment boss to lead EPBC committee on CSG and coal mines
  
• Two more landfill gas projects cleared to create CFI credits
  
• Recalcitrant landfill operator finally hands over levy payments
  
• WA Parliament seeks urgent increase in sandalwood harvesting penalties
  
• NSW issues guidelines on hazardous ground gases

A bill before the WA Parliament will require miners to pay a levy into a new fund that supports the remediation of abandoned mines.

• Clean Energy Regulator signs MoU with tax office
  
• Burke details EPBC EIS requirements for Cape York bauxite mine
  
• National power market rule fix for small low- or no-emissions generators
  
• SA residents doorknocked over Mobil site contamination

• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum

Santos has pledged to rapidly improve the environmental performance of recently-acquired NSW coal seam gas operations after its investigation showed elevated soil salinity levels.

A planning policy clearing the way for a major residential development is invalid because the minister failed to consider contamination and wrongly took into account a conservation offset deal, the NSW Land and Environment Court has ruled.

• Greens wary of Kelty's forests deal
  
• Key portfolios mar federal agency progress on energy efficiency
  
• Victoria gazettes new contaminated soil requirements

• Three companies fined over sugar mill pollution
  
• EPA SA launches site contamination index
  
• Federal Government drafts new assessment bilateral agreement with WA

• EPBC Act breach costs national rail body $207,000
  
• WA mining company under investigation for tailings spill
  
• Councillor who operated illegal tip ordered to pay $71,000