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• New finance for commercial-scale clean energy projects
  
• Nyrstar receives more generous Safeguard limit
  
• Federal money earmarked for recycling projects and stewardship schemes

• 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

• Government reserves slab of CEFC finance for hydrogen
  
• EPA charges utility over discharges into low-flow river
  
• Drone scrutiny leads to EPA penalty for major Cleanaway landfill

Downer has won a Victorian Premier's sustainability award for its recycled-content asphalt, with other winners including Melbourne Health and the state's renewable energy auction scheme.

• Qenos, Fulton Hogan, share in $1.6m grant allocation
  
• New regulatory arrangements for Queensland mine closures
  
• Water availability drops by up to 21% in southern Victoria: New study

• E-waste scheme service provider fails to meet recycling targets
  
• Cleanaway teams with Macquarie on waste to energy
  
• Viva Energy seeks PFAS exemption
  
• New bioenergy grants on offer for projects under 5MW

More than 30 Victorian councils will share $6.6 million to offset a jump in the cost of handling their recyclables, and companies including Boral and Alex Fraser have won large grants for recycling infrastructure.

• Morrison offers $20m for plastic waste research
  
• Bank offers discount energy efficiency loans of up to $5m
  
• Victoria introduces bill for 2030 renewables target