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• 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

• ACT Assembly passes energy efficiency bill
  
• Federal Government hands out $271m in carbon and biodiversity grants
  
• Build single entry-point for all forms of approval, Hunt says

• NSW environment court overturns prawn farm employee's prison sentence
  
• Queensland court issues $83,000 fine for illegal land clearing
  
• Suzuki, Geldof, Weaver to headline Melbourne business sustainability convention

NAB is co-founding a global initiative to ensure banks and businesses properly value ecosystem services in their decision-making, accounting and reporting.

• Burke vetoes Victoria's alpine grazing trial
  
• ASX cautious on next-wave sustainability reporting
  
• Abbott to tread lightly on planet, stomp heavily on carbon price

• KPMG review of NSW waste levy won't examine 'general revenue' grab
  
• Government rejects Senate committee call to review land clearing laws
  
• Norske Skog slashes Derwent estuary discharges

• $350m 'carbon price' write-down for TRUenergy power plant
  
• No place for alternative fuel mandates, new Federal strategy says
  
• Coal mine penalised $117,000
  
• Victoria makes EPBC referral justifying 'strategic' alpine grazing
  
• Focus $10bn clean energy body on RD&D, not deployment, says ESAA

• More to come to secure EPBC protection for national parks, Burke says
  
• Centennial Coal to pay $1.45 million EPBC Act penalty
  
• Business seeks changes to Sydney trade waste plans, NSW incident reporting bill
  
• Toyota misses some five-year sustainability targets

• Government details new carbon grant schemes
  
• Environmental offsets 'a last resort', says new WA policy
  
• 'Environmental citizenship' features in EPA Victoria's five-year plan
  
• Orica ordered to notify residents of high mercury reading
  
• Sydney Water applies for higher discharge limits

Banks don't have the right to refuse credit to legitimate businesses on environmental grounds but there are plenty of other options, says NAB chief financial officer Mark Joiner.