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Stung into action by pressure from green groups and industry, Australia's environment ministers agree to release in July the RIS for a proposed e-waste scheme and to consider the final plan in November.

• Garrett moves on national waste policy
  
• SA environment court fines waste firm $460,000
  
• Former World Bank chief to head Rudd's CCS advisory council
  
• NSW launches biodiversity 'credits wanted' service
  
• More Gore – new book out in November

• Climate white paper briefings open for bookings
  
• Adelaide food recycling trial kicks off
  
• Climate change derails HR Nicholls' industrial relations agenda
  
• Gore sets out to bust 'clean coal' bubble

• Pulp and paper industry warns of closures, outlines abatement options
  
• Déjà vu on waste: ministers' progress 'grossly' over-stated
  
• Climate Institute releases abatement modelling tool
  
• WA to provide water treatment for Esperance lead-affected families
  
• Australian Coal Association releases more than 40 CCS videos

In 2001, Australia's federal environment agency issued a discussion paper on a product stewardship strategy for electrical and electronic appliances. Last Friday, more than seven years on, Australia's environment ministers – five of them new to the ministerial environment council – set a 2009 deadline for actually deciding what to do.

• Time to upgrade NSW waste policy, auditor-general says
  
• 'Environmental professionals must spotlight government failures', EIANZ told
  
• Science academies urge governments to move faster on carbon capture and storage
  
• NPI issues new reporting guide

• Coalition and Greens slam solar rebate means-test
  
• Milne tables national feed-in tariff bill
  
• Melbourne hazardous waste landfill closes ahead of schedule
  
• Rudd government quizzed on coal and energy
  
• Bligh praises Queensland businesses for water conservation efforts
  
• Garrett seeks comment on marine debris threats
  
• NSW Parliament issues carbon capture and storage paper

• Milne slams CCS alliance
  
• 'Ten cent levy would double container recycling rate'
  
• Training system needs to 'move up a gear'
  
• Utility's environmental licence shrinks from 113 pages to nine

• Federal oil spill bill goes before parliament
  
• Senate committee to investigate waste management, CDL
  
• WWF tells Victorian government CCS demonstration projects warrant special treatment

• Rudd and Clarke to cooperate on emissions trading
  
• Caltex hits out at world-first move on transport emissions
  
• A matter of principle; how Wong and Tanner will decide what climate programs to chop
  
• Clinton Climate Initiative to back Latrobe Valley carbon capture project?
  
• Queensland leads in GreenPower growth
  
• Environmental lawyers call for tougher rules on GHG reporting compliance
  
• Packaging covenant council names non-compliant firms
  
• Keep trading simple and don't have a price cap, says EC