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• Woolworths reflects on energy savings
  
• Treasury seeks views on carbon credits regulations
  
• Re-start date for Orica plant to be set next week
  
• IEA scrutinises deployment strategies for renewables

BlueScope Steel declined to respond to this year's Carbon Disclosure Project, bucking a trend of rising disclosure that resulted in 50% of ASX200 companies reporting their emissions data and response strategies, today's CDP Australia/New Zealand report reveals.

• Building energy disclosure scheme fully operational
  
• Combet releases national carbon registry draft regulations
  
• Utility regulator welcomes 'the end of sustainability'

• Paint company fined for failing to comply with resource efficiency scheme
  
• Alcoa and Victorian Government finalise new special agreement for coal mining
  
• Retailer efforts to 'green' supply chains risk ACCC scrutiny, IPA says
  
• P&O cuts water use, carbon emissions intensity

A pallet recycling initiative has helped cut Fuji Xerox Australia's waste-to-landfill by 41% in 2010-11, but the company failed to meet a 1% reduction target for carbon emissions.

In the wake of research showing sustainability reporting is rarely done well, two Australian investor organisations have launched new corporate guidelines – and have identified companies that are leading the way.

The Lion group's latest sustainability achievements include new ISO14001 accreditations, installing a cogeneration plant, conducting a company-wide water audit and selling 4.5 million litres of carbon-neutral beer.

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

• No confidence in Magellan in wake of new lead result, WA minister warns
  
• ACCI and Greens polls apart on carbon tax
  
• Gold miner makes progress on cyanide code certification

OneSteel's first stand-alone sustainability report reports a significant cut in potable water consumption at its Whyalla steelworks – which is South Australia's largest water user – and says projects at its NSW operations allowed it to create and sell energy efficiency certificates worth $600,000 in 2009-10.