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• NSW splits key EPA roles
  
• Queensland and NSW falling short of clean energy targets
  
• Free waste assessments on offer

• WA awards $2.29 million to 28 waste projects
  
• NZ builds emissions and waste criteria into government procurement
  
• Optus boosts preparedness for extreme weather events

• Huge hike in state waste levy comes under fire
  
• ARENA awards grants worth $16.5m
  
• Victorian bag ban to include compostable plastic

The Queensland government will use $100 million of its waste levy revenue to help launch its new clean energy generation agency.

• Court to consider SKM fire class action settlement
  
• Boral uses four waste streams in asphalt
  
• New climate resilience grants

• Water pollution costs Porsche $132,000
  
• Environmental agency fined $84,000 for pollution
  
• CEFC-backed composting plant opens in Melbourne

• 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

• Costly clean-up looms, as waste site owner goes into liquidation
  
• Three carbon credit methods to be consolidated
  
• NSW Coalition pledges extra $30 million for clean energy

A new state grant scheme will support the conversion of industrial, agricultural and household waste into biofuels, electricity, and substitutes for petroleum-based plastic.

• WA to introduce ethical procurement requirements
  
• WA Lower House unanimously passes container deposit bills
  
• Qantas ratchets up waste target
  
• Holcim upgrades not good enough, EPA says