A Wesfarmers-backed lithium refinery will cut its net emissions by 38% within 10 years, after the Western Australian EPA requested stronger carbon commitments.
NSW's Independent Planning Commission has applied a carbon offset condition to a coal mining project that is weaker than the company was prepared to accept.
A company owned by Sanjeev Gupta has told NSW's Independent Planning Commission it is open to a scope 3 offsets condition for its coal mine, and the Commission has also asked about deeper scope 1 cuts.
The NSW EPA will invite public comment on Delta Electricity's application to have its ageing Vales Point power station once again exempted from modern NOx limits.
An appeal has identified multiple failings in the Western Australian EPA's assessment of a gas-fired power station proposed by Fortescue, but the state government won't make the agency re-evaluate it.
The NSW EPA has recommended additional processing of waste that Cleanaway accepts for energy recovery, while Australian Paper's planned Victorian waste to energy facility has a new potential feedstock supplier.
EPA Victoria has granted approval for a $56 million pilot plant that will extract magnesium metal from waste fly-ash sourced from Energy Australia's Yallourn brown coal power station.
The company proposing a WA gas project, along with the state's environmental agency, are taking a very different stance on carbon offsetting to Santos and the NSW government.