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The Victorian Legislative Assembly has passed a bill to overhaul the state's waste management arrangements and formally end the EREP scheme, with Labor accusing the Government of turning revenue from the waste levy into a 'slush fund'.

The likely repeal of the carbon price won't stop the axe falling on a Victorian scheme previously dubbed redundant because of carbon pricing.

• ERF cuts pointless without penalties: Grattan Institute
  
• Low-carbon investment dollars will 'sit on the sidelines'
  
• Seek efficiency gains from existing homes: Master Builders
  
• Carbon price 'costly and ineffective': Refrigerants industry
  
• Farm-based abatement projects won't be the cheapest: NFF

• Victoria offers building energy efficiency grants; supports industry programs
  
• Defence seeks environmental experts
  
• Tip-off by neighbouring business leads to spill fine

New reports from an Australian group representing funds that manage more than $900 billion warn oil and gas reserves might have to remain unexploited and urge investors to seek climate change risk assessments from owners of large mines.

The Victorian Government will immediately phase-out a resource efficiency program that targets 250 large energy and water users, on the basis that it imposes an 'unnecessary compliance burden'.

• Election means companies should move by May on clean energy grants
  
• Regulatory impact statement imminent for EEO expansion
  
• EPBC ruling sought on CO2 storage research in Browse Basin

A CE Daily guide to key dates for the coming year. We will resume publishing on January 16.

• WA gazettes new procedures for environmental impact assessments
  
• NSW abolishes 'energy savings plans' scheme
  
• SA EPA grants carbon monoxide exemption to Nyrstar

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and state and territory leaders have agreed to energy reforms including measures to reward large power users that moderate their consumption in peak periods, while the PM said state proposals for devolving EPBC approval powers were too divergent.