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US global investment firm KKR has taken a minority stake in Australia's largest carbon offsets company, and former Business Council president Grant King has joined its board.

• Other coal miners do it too, Whitehaven says of water prosecution
  
• Spill prompts EPA inspection blitz at 27 Cleanaway facilities
  
• New soil carbon venture expects to expand base of high-profile supporters

Key industry associations and lobby groups are moving quickly to ensure job-creating clean economy projects feature prominently in stimulus packages.

• State proposes 'needs-based' approach to new waste infrastructure
  
• ClimateWorks targets sustainable food and land use
  
• New centre to help businesses and councils switch to clean energy
  
• Ian Kiernan: Praise for 'true environmental champion'

The Queensland budget reveals how waste levy revenue will be spent, and also outlines plans for launching its green bond-backed $500 million Land Restoration Fund.

• Council to earn carbon credits by composting food waste
  
• Regulator to mandate waste data reporting
  
• EPA revises wastewater treatment code

• First state government projects cleared to earn carbon credits
  
• 'Waste to energy' company wins right to earn credits
  
• Top companies send climate message to Canberra and business peers
  
• Use rates and stamp duty to encourage building efficiency: Study

• Government to register CFI auditors
  
• International carbon company takes stake in local business
  
• Sims seeks hazardous waste permit

• Government proposes new forestry carbon credit rules
  
• WA EPA launches 'waste-to-energy' review
  
• WA Health intervenes in major expansion of oil recycling facility

• Burke pushes back approval timeframe for Great Barrier Reef port development
  
• WA EPA recommends disclosure condition for expanded mine
  
• Plant hire company fined $35,000 for dumping industrial waste
  
• ABARES outlines carbon credits 'common practice' test