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• Two sites authorised to accept West Gate Tunnel PFAS waste
  
• Seven recycling projects share grants totalling $730,000
  
• Greens seek Senate inquiry into 15 projects on EPBC fast-track list

• Queensland backs new ERF methods for blue carbon
  
• Grants of up to $1.1m on offer for circuit-breaker energy and environment fixes
  
• Manage fire dangers or risk 'lost carbon' make-up orders: Offset providers warned

• Major new battery recycling facility proposed for Latrobe Valley
  
• ARENA offers $15m to tackle solar PV waste, improve panel efficiency
  
• Almost a quarter of eucalypt species at risk of extinction
  
• EPA signals overhaul of radiation protection regime

• Queensland Parliament backs pollution notification bill
  
• Bill must heed biodiversity collapse and climate change, warns SA Labor
  
• Queensland names first carbon farming grant recipients

• New scheme under way to certify on-farm biodiversity protection
  
• Rules for earning carbon credits from transport projects under review
  
• Hazwaste permit granted to export fire-damaged bulk carrier

Victoria's top sustainability advisor has warned that the state's biodiversity is in decline on multiple fronts, in a new 'state of the environment' report.

Australia should mandate more stringent carbon controls on companies and vehicles, and strengthen policies on biodiversity, waste and chemicals, according to the OECD.

• Audit identifies major failings in tackling salinity
  
• Free energy assessments for farmers
  
• Battle against Reef catchment gully erosion is winnable, says Greening Australia

• New Senate inquiry into CEFC support for carbon storage
  
• Aurizon won't seek NAIF funding at this stage
  
• Senate partially rejects illegal logging regulations