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• Woodside sustainability report sets only two measurable targets
  
• Alcoa and Rio Tinto deal paves way for new WA national park
  
• EPA issues company with clean-up notice after cattle deaths

• Consultancy penalised for misleading contamination data
  
• Last chance to enrol in executive sustainability seminar
  
• EPA Victoria issues drilling mud waste classification

Upcoming events include conferences on Direct Action, contaminated sites, energy-from-waste and bioenergy, as well as the inaugural oration in honour of Fiona Wain, to be delivered by ARENA's Greg Bourne.

Seminars coming up around Australia over the next few months will cover topics including environmental compliance, energy efficiency, bioenergy, carbon and water management at mines.

• NT Assembly passes mines rehabilitation levy bill
  
• NSW finalises waste exemption for electric arc furnace slag
  
• Audit finds flaws in public reporting by Victoria's environment department

Almost 1,000 potentially contaminated sites have been reported to the NSW EPA since late 2009 – compared to just 500 notifications over the entire previous decade, says the state's new State of the Environment Report.

• Shell potentially liable for contamination: EPA Tasmania
  
• RET will work without a carbon price: Coalition
  
• Renewables agency open to innovative grant options

• Queensland minister attacks Orica's 'long history' of breaches
  
• Ernst & Young develops carbon price guide for CFOs
  
• Ai Group and AusIndustry run carbon grants seminars
  
• Sydney City wins $3.75m trigeneration grant
  
• SA EPA invites contaminated sites auditor applications

• Dow Jones sustainability index hands top ranking to Westpac
  
• Clean Energy Council releases policy roadmap for large-scale solar
  
• What's hot in thermal soil treatment: EPA Victoria
  
• Printer cartridges gain 'carbon neutral' certification

Most companies are closely watching the Federal carbon price push – and the likely outlines of a deal are starting to emerge – but state, territory and local governments are also taking action that has major implications for business.