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• Rudd freezes clean technology grant scheme
  
• WA EPA recommends approval for new coal export port
  
• World Bank (almost) quits coal

Undertaking a cumulative impact assessment is challenging but, as companies contemplating projects at Queensland's Abbot Point deepwater port discovered, do it right and the benefits can be substantial, according to consultant Peter Hemphill.

• Queensland details environmental conditions for 19 industries
  
• Attorney-General boosts funding for environmental lawyers
  
• Queensland to overhaul waste regulation
  
• Alcoa seeks hazardous waste permit

• Approval delay costs hard to quantify, concedes Mineral Council
  
• Orica issues new sustainability report
  
• SA citizens strongly back expanded container deposit scheme

Assisted by senior regulators, a new association of bankers and investors plans to develop finance industry guidelines to ensure lenders properly scrutinise the environmental credentials of projects seeking funding.

• Government changes terms for key carbon grants
  
• Magellan cleared to recommence lead shipments
  
• Institute invites tenders for carbon decision-making guide

• Minimal impacts, but NSW to introduce new BHPB coal mine limits
  
• Five years on, Dual Gas grant offer lapses
  
• Smart water meter roll-out aims to pinpoint leaks
  
• Queensland raises environmental fees

• NSW EPA chief: time to make company data useful
  
• Buffier defends EPA over BHPB mine discharge
  
• New regulation tweaks NGERS
  
• Government invites coal mine methane grant applications

• NSW EPA trumpets court penalties
  
• SA EPA puts licence applications online
  
• EPA Victoria issues new noise management guide

• Challenge to NSW remediation order fails
  
• Industry associations share $20m in energy efficiency grants
  
• Commission details views on smart meters and privacy
  
• New draft GreenPower rules issued
  
• EPA Victoria seeks feedback on key reforms