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The West Australian environment department has charged Cockburn Cement with air pollution, alleging the company was responsible for the release of lime kiln dust from its premises in April last year.

Federal changes mean companies will find it easier to buy and use Australian carbon credits, a NSW review is likely to result in tougher environmental incident notification rules and a Western Australian appeal decision confirms that backers of major projects will face carbon offset obligations.

A company must pay a $90,000 fine and $140,000 in costs, a court has ruled, in the first test of a legal obligation to prevent or minimise emissions of unregulated air pollutants.

Huntsman Corporation has told a NSW court it is planning an $8 million upgrade of a Sydney facility that emitted a carcinogenic gas, with the company ordered to pay $68,000 after pleading guilty to failing to act in a competent manner.

• Contractor's actions put lead mine under further EPA scrutiny
  
• SA EPA receives more than 2,300 complaints, finalises only two prosecutions
  
• Government seeks 'carbon farming' project applications

• Site owner 'untruthful, selfish, grossly irresponsible', judge says
  
• Tribunal crushes council's veto of construction waste recycling plant
  
• Court orders water utility to pay $63,000
  
• Changes at Sustainable Business Australia

LMS Generation has failed in its bid to have the Victorian Supreme Court strike out parts of a claim made against it by a council and residents whose homes were exposed to dangerous levels of methane.