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Property company Stockland plans to install an extra 12MW of solar PV, issue new sustainability guidance to suppliers, and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.

• Court issues $570,000 in penalties to company and directors
  
• Fonterra works with farmers to cut carbon emissions
  
• GPT adopts 'net zero' target

• Victoria changes definition of combustible recyclables and waste
  
• Convention will make mercury lamps 'stranded assets', lighting expert warns
  
• Crown Casino to earn credits from replacement trigeneration project

The Turnbull government's 2018 environmental agenda will affect importers of new chemicals, companies required to report pollutant emissions, suppliers of products that lead to problem wastes, and facilities that emit large quantities of greenhouse gas.

• Agency aims to strengthen council and developer sustainability links
  
• New chair for CSG and coal mine science committee
  
• New hazwaste permit notification procedures

Sydney City will establish a 'net zero emissions challenge' for building owners and will investigate using aquifers to store recycled water and stormwater for reuse, says its new environmental plan.

Big businesses will soon start refusing to have companies in their supply chain that can't demonstrate a basic level of sustainability awareness, says a leading construction industry expert.

• Hunt issues revised 'carbon neutral' rules
  
• Glencore worst climate performer: New investor study
  
• Transport and waste emissions loom as ACT priorities

• First state government projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• 'Waste to energy' company wins right to earn credits
  
• Top companies send climate message to Canberra and business peers
  
• Use rates and stamp duty to encourage building efficiency: Study

Environment Minister Greg Hunt has slashed the official list of wastes suitable for product stewardship schemes and dropped household appliances that contain potent greenhouse gases.