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If Labor takes office after Saturday's election, Queensland's laws on impact assessment, planning, water, waste and offsets will likely change, and so too might the approach to drafting and enforcing environmental legislation.

In a year of huge regulatory change for environmental managers, the Federal Government has started the process of handing core environmental responsibilities to states and abolishing carbon charges for large emitters, while all governments began targeting 'green tape'.

• Four councils added to carbon-liable list
  
• Queensland to legislate 10-year ban on dredging outside five port zones
  
• Orica seeks NSW EPA approval for licence changes
  
• EPBC science committee details approach to regional assessments

• Greens call for recount in Western Australia
  
• ACCC authorises joint waste tenders by regional NSW councils
  
• Murray Goulburn EIS out for comment

AGL has written down the value of its NSW upstream gas assets by $344 million due to coal seam gas restrictions, and the company will continue to investigate ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions whatever happens federally, according to its annual report.

• Ai Group floats bigger role for Canberra to speed flow of unconventional gas
  
• Could 'direct action' be banded?
  
• 'Competitive advantage' from early trading move: CMI

• EPA extends comment deadline for Esso's bid to boost CO2 emissions
  
• Coal company rejigs carbon-liable presence
  
• Correction: GreenPower and the carbon-neutral standard

Victoria will shift its focus away from cutting greenhouse gas emissions now that a national carbon price is in place, says a statement of regulatory intent issued by the Baillieu Government.

The WA EPA today recommended retaining some state greenhouse gas conditions applying to Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project, including reporting obligations, partly on the basis that the public should have more information on emissions than is available through NGERs.

Armed with the findings from an economics consultancy, the WA EPA will shortly advise the State Government on whether greenhouse gas conditions imposed on Chevron's Wheatstone LNG project are complementary to a carbon price, EPA chair Paul Vogel has told CE Daily.