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• Enforceable undertaking: port deepening company to pay $75,000
  
• No CO2 offsets required of BHP/Mitsubishi coal mine
  
• BlueScope: trading or a carbon tax is the best for Australia
  
• Faragher tweaks conditions on WA port expansion
  
• NZ scientists slam 'obscure, ridiculous' High Court challenge by sceptics

• Queensland mine faces fine of up to $15.8 million
  
• 'Unmistakeable' signs of warming: U.S. report
  
• WA funds commercial composting project
  
• Caroma, AGL, Sydney Water among NSW award winners

Australian companies sourcing paper from Indonesia-based Asia Pulp and Paper are buying from a company destroying swathes of Sumatra's peat swamp forests, according to a Greenpeace report released today.

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

• Huge coal export project factors in sea-level rise
  
• Tasmanian court fines company $15,000 for nine offences
  
• 'We have to go through a new industrial revolution': new UK climate minister

• EEO scheme cautions companies on deadline, details verification strategy
  
• Iron ore company releases environmental review for new WA mine
  
• Research centre details energy efficiency policies in APEC economies
  
• NZ issues climate change flooding guides for local government

• NSW coal mine submits EPBC Act referral for waste gas generator
  
• Uranium miner seeks clearance for acid leach trial
  
• UK climate scientists 'slightly disorganised' but honest

A UK parliamentary inquiry has cleared Professor Phil Jones, the climate scientist at the centre of the 'climategate' leaked emails controversy, in a report that refers to his refusal to supply raw data to a 'freelance earth scientist from Australia' and to a complaint from an academic who has fronted a Senate inquiry for the climate-sceptic Lavoisier Group.

• Silex finalises Solar Systems purchase
  
• House of Representatives finalises 'farmers and climate change' report
  
• WA to install nation's first 'permeable' contamination barrier
  
• Electrical contractors urge inspections of all insulated homes
  
• IEA and WBCSD issue joint call for climate action

Emissions trading can't work, coal must be phased out and nuclear must be part of the world's energy mix, says renowned NASA climate science James Hansen, who warns those opposing climate change action are perpetrating a 'great hoax' about the validity of the science.