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• Frydenberg locks in details of HFC phase-down
  
• Qantas to go PFAS-free after hanger spill
  
• EPA proposes new scrap metal controls
  
• Fine for swearing at EPA officer

A farmer has missed out on a soil carbon research tax break after applying a few days late, in a case that the Administrative Appeals Tribunal described as a 'compelling example of excessive rigidity' in legislation.

In a mixed week for Causmag Ore, a NSW court fined it $82,500 for air pollution, but it won back almost that amount in a revised carbon liability assessment by the Clean Energy Regulator.

The ACCC is alleging that a refrigerant gas wholesaler made windfall gains by stockpiling HFC gases ahead of the introduction of the carbon price.

In a year of huge regulatory change for environmental managers, the Federal Government has started the process of handing core environmental responsibilities to states and abolishing carbon charges for large emitters, while all governments began targeting 'green tape'.

• Ports Corporation amends dredging plans for Abbot Point
  
• Climate Change Authority to host carbon targets webinar tomorrow
  
• Company subject to bushfire order fined for harm to threatened species

• Herbicide discharge costs company $55,000
  
• Serious data gaps on CSG emissions: study
  
• Victoria announces $1.35m in waste grants

• WA takes light-handed approach with enforcement
  
• ACT shortlists 10 to provide solar PV, as Qld abandons the field
  
• Waste funding on offer for packaging covenant signatories
  
• Carbon Markets Institute to host symposium
  
• New VEET guidelines out for comment
  
• Waste company fined $20,000

• Court orders shipping company to pay $200,000 for oil spill
  
• Nationals and Greens slam Orica's inquiry appearances
  
• Alcoa power contracts carry carbon cost for Victoria, Budget says

• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum