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• Victoria offers low-carbon manufacturing grants
  
• Battery minerals company makes EPBC referral to use coal mine methane
  
• ARENA backs hydrogen and offshore wind
  
• Landfill operator might lose licence over odours

ARENA has invited applications from companies, utilities, and industrial precincts for a share in grants totalling $43 million to fund "transformational" projects.

• Wesfarmers raises profile of sustainability data
  
• Legislative change frees Coles to trial BYO containers at deli counters
  
• Calls grow for new federal Energy Transition Authority

• Downer strengthens emissions targets, adds scope 3 goal
  
• New waste grants of up to $500,000 available
  
• Company fined $285,000 for contaminating school with asbestos

• CEFC backs discount decarbonisation loans, with recycling focus
  
• Plibersek awards largest grant under organics recycling scheme
  
• Fuel efficiency standards failure costing $5.9 billion: Australia Institute

• First energy management system advisors certified under new scheme
  
• NSW energy from waste regulations now in force
  
• State governments support renewable diesel and low-carbon feed additive

• Queensland council turns sewage sludge into biochar
  
• More businesses to gain access to solar subsidy scheme
  
• Renewables the best jobs creator to replace Eraring's capacity: New study

• New recycling grants on offer
  
• WesCEF shifts focus from peer-linked targets, sets new interim goal
  
• Transport emissions up 12%: New Ndevr analysis
  
• Major gaps in GHD's EIS for plastics recycling plant, EPA says

• Most Australian executives back federal climate approach: Deloitte survey
  
• Councils oppose plan for $220m cogeneration plant at recycled paper mill
  
• Kean orders EPA to report regularly on NSW emissions progress

An alliance of four companies has won a $6 million grant to build a large plastic recycling plant in Melbourne, after three of them last year shared $4.8 million for a similar facility in Albury.