In a landmark move, the NSW EPA will become the first state environmental regulator to use its licensing regime to cut industry greenhouse gas emissions.
Inpex, TotalEnergies and Woodside will spend $165 million investigating a carbon storage site offshore from the Northern Territory, while Chevron and Santos will jointly assess CCS opportunities elsewhere.
Anglo American's Grosvenor coal mine has received a new Safeguard limit entitling it to emit six times more greenhouse gas than was forecast when it sought consent, highlighting deep flaws in the federal scheme, says the Australian Conservation Foundation.
Businesses including Woodside, Lion, Boral, and Fortescue have for the first time disclosed their progress towards meeting climate change goals, in new reports released by the Clean Energy Regulator.
Western Australia's EPA says it would be unreasonable to impose scope 3 greenhouse gas conditions on Woodside's North West Shelf LNG expansion project.
Proposals to impose decarbonisation requirements on Queensland's mining sector have been watered down in the final version of the state's resources industry development plan.