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• Queensland court schedules hearings for Xstrata coal challenge
  
• We're all climate policy sabateurs, union chief says
  
• Watchdog agencies issue joint warning on solar claims

A NSW court is set to re-assess the merits of a proposed coal mine expansion in a rare form of legal challenge brought by a group of environmentalists.

A NSW court has allowed CO2 activists to seek an order preventing Macquarie Generation's Bayswater power station from burning more than seven million tonnes of coal a year and to ask for new declarations that the company breached implied limits on the plant's greenhouse gas emissions.

• Rann sets 60MW limit on feed-in tariff scheme
  
• Gillard has put Greens in 'driver's seat', Abbott says
  
• High Court to hear case on farmer's carbon rights
  
• Nicholas Stern meets with key politicians
  
• SA doing best at waste recovery: NSW report

A climate activist's challenge in the NSW environment court to approvals to expand two power stations is likely to focus on CCS conditions set by the NSW Planning Minister and whether he has adequately considered ecologically sustainable development.

• Austpac gains NSW environment approval for steel-waste recycling plant
  
• Macquarie Generation loses court bid to make CO₂ challengers pay costs
  
• Hot Rock Ltd granted Queensland exploration permit

Hunger-strike farmer wins right to High Court hearing; High Court to rule on watchdog NGO's tax status; and World Economic Forum issues energy efficiency report.

The threats posed by climate change warrant an 'interventionist approach' by courts and they can have a 'catalytic effect' on legislators, says the Chief Judge of the NSW Land and Environment Court, Brian Preston.

The NSW Court of Appeal yesterday ruled that the state's planning minister doesn't have to consider principles of ecologically sustainable development in granting approvals, overturning a lower court ruling that quashed approval for a coastal residential development plan due to the minister's failure to consider climate change-related flood risk.

• Garrett canvasses views on Anvil Hill coal mine decision
  
• Water diversions under EPBC Act scrutiny, says Wong
  
• Senate considers carbon sink forest tax concession
  
• Queensland proposes new housing standards
  
• Odour complaints lead to $25,000 fine
  
• NZ ministry issues summary of NZ trading bill changes
  
• Department of Climate Change offers graduate intake