Browsing: <a href="/tag/chemicals">Chemicals</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/resource-efficiency-waste">Resource efficiency, waste</a>

• Abandoned chemicals stockpile costs company and director $662,000
  
• Draft ministerial wind guidelines now available
  
• NSW ship-scuttling case focuses on toxic paint
  
• Australia Institute: Green jobs should be the benefit, not the goal

• Deadline looms for comment on RET exemption regulations
  
• Government calls for IPCC nominations
  
• WA waste funding on offer
  
• National framework proposed for 'agvet' chemicals
  
• Chemicals group urges Australian ban on widely-used plasticiser
  
• EDO WA seeks outreach solicitor

Federal environment minister Peter Garrett is poised to boost Australia's ability to monitor the presence of dioxins, PCBs and other toxic chemicals in the environment and in human blood and breast milk.



And can coal-to-liquid projects, which have a huge greenhouse gas footprint, be a driver for carbon capture and storage? The International Energy Agency says they should be and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson thinks they have to be.



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