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• Port and stevedore give enforceable undertakings, pay $54,000
  
• Palaszczuk establishes Cabinet biofuels committee
  
• EPA orders chemicals company to fix long-standing problems

Hydraulic fracking for oil and gas has the potential to affect drinking water but in America there are few cases where this is known to have occurred, according to a major draft study by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Tasmania's Supreme Court has overturned a planning tribunal ruling that the EPA could not direct a business to put in place containment measures for hazardous chemicals.

The temporary shut-down of Orica's Kooragang Island plant after a hexavalent chromium discharge cost the company $90m, according to half-year results issued today, which also reveal it has provided $190m for various clean-up and environmental projects.

• NSW EPA to regulate large wind farms
  
• Magistrate wrong on water pollution ruling
  
• Minor amendments finalised for controlled waste NEPM

• Coal union chief to ACTU Congress – we can reshape economy
  
• CO2 Australia inks deal with ACT utility
  
• NSW mining ban bill defeated
  
• Environment groups welcome Queensland farm run-off legislation
  
• U.S. climate envoy heads to China, new summary out of Waxman bill

WA's Carpenter government is establishing a special inspection and compliance branch in the WA Department of Environment and Conservation and will complete an independent review of the department's inspection and compliance functions by February, says yesterday's government response to a damning parliamentary report on the lead contamination scandal in Esperance.