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A new state grant scheme will support the conversion of industrial, agricultural and household waste into biofuels, electricity, and substitutes for petroleum-based plastic.

• Energy policy must be 'grounded in economics and engineering', Turnbull says
  
• Queensland backs $50m biorefinery
  
• Australia signs on for tougher ballast water rules

• Safeguard baselines to be released soon
  
• New climate resilience grants on offer
  
• Queensland and US Navy to cooperate on biofuels
  
• Sustainability agency aims to steer more money to upgrades, renewables

• Queensland pitches to become biofutures hub
  
• New corporate alliance promotes sustainable fuels
  
• Greens push for $2bn biodiversity fund
  
• Environmental crime report says Indonesia laundering illegal timber

• Queensland to mandate biofuel use
  
• Auditor-General accused of 'systematic pessimism' on smart meters
  
• Hunt issues carbon credits method for beef farmers
  
• ACT adaptation strategy due soon

• Port and stevedore give enforceable undertakings, pay $54,000
  
• Palaszczuk establishes Cabinet biofuels committee
  
• EPA orders chemicals company to fix long-standing problems

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• Queensland Government to mandate 2% ethanol
  
• NSW offers councils climate resilience grants
  
• Tribunal rules in favour of renderer

The Australian sugar and bio-energy industries are in for a shake up with the approval yesterday of a processing plant in North Queensland that will produce sugar, ethanol and power and will also be capable of processing timber and crop wastes.

• Canberra to impose anti-dumping duties on U.S. biodiesel
  
• Qantas, Woolworths distance themselves from carbon letter to PM
  
• Burke urged to assess five WA projects on greenhouse gas grounds
  
• 'Technical' EPBC Act breaches lead to penalty for coal seam gas company