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Queensland's Supreme Court will for the first time rule on whether the state's Environmental Protection Act obliges the environment department to consider emissions from coal burning, in a dispute over approval of Hancock Coal's Alpha mine.

Xstrata Coal Qld has failed to secure a Land Court order that Friends of the Earth pay legal costs incurred by the company while it fought the environment group's unsuccessful challenge to mining leases and approvals for the proposed Wandoan coal mine.

Xstrata's Ulan Coal has lost an important legal costs battle, with the NSW Land and Environment Court rejecting its argument that an activist group had acted unreasonably in seeking to overturn or modify approval for the mine's expansion due to increased greenhouse gas emissions.

An Xstrata coal mine and the NSW Government have successfully relied on the looming carbon price scheme to argue against environment group demands that approval conditions should require the mine to offset greenhouse gas emissions.

• Victoria proposes new eligible business activities for energy efficiency scheme
  
• EPA witness disputes Dual Gas high-tech coal plant claims, Karoly weighs in
  
• TRUenergy makes each way bet with new Qld $3.6 billion gas power plant investment
  
• Penrice and GE explore ways to use coal seam gas brine
  
• Tasmania's large emitters to meet with State Government

In line with tribunal orders, EPA Victoria has released expert witness statements that it and Dual Gas will rely on in a legal dispute over the validity of the works approval granted for a gasified coal power plant.

• Closing arguments begin in Xstrata coal mine case
  
• Victorian Parliament passes landfill levies bill
  
• No prospect for an early carbon scheme link with NZ

• 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.

• 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