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• Closing arguments begin in Xstrata coal mine case
  
• Victorian Parliament passes landfill levies bill
  
• No prospect for an early carbon scheme link with NZ

• Climate committee loses key adviser; examines carbon price 'floor'
  
• Industry refrigerants group distances itself from ACCC comments
  
• Victoria releases draft 'clean fill' guidelines
  
• NZ releases voluntary greenhouse gas reporting guidelines

• Revised NGER determination out for comment
  
• Sustainability Victoria steps in on end-of-life TVs
  
• Wind farm hiatus offers chance for new players
  
• Victorian sustainability award finalists announced
  
• Asia-Pacific climate partnership fades away

• Council consent for new Coles complex conditional on 50% renewables
  
• Climate advocacy fund withdraws shareholder resolution
  
• Victorian levy funds must be spent on waste programs, Ai Group says
  
• IEA reveals Australia's dismal public spending on energy efficiency

• Senate schedules carbon farming, product stewardship inquiries
  
• ESAA hands out sustainability awards
  
• NT native vegetation bill inserts carbon criteria into permitting processes
  
• Combet points to action by China

• NT Government lashes beverage industry 'scare campaign'
  
• Plan B: Obama urges 2035 clean energy goal, targets 'big oil' tax breaks
  
• Health and climate change academic receives Order of Australia
  
• WA quarry operator licence appeal makes little headway

• Theft prompts EU to suspend ETS registry transactions
  
• NZ scrutinises trading scheme
  
• How Cancun affected key countries and markets
  
• EU getting tougher on waste management
  
• Shift taxes from what we earn to what we burn, says EU commissioner (with video

ACT Assembly passes law to ban plastic bags

* Silex to raise $89 million to fund pilot solar PV power plants

* Sydney councils propose new recycling and composting facilities

* Consultant sought for Western Australia renewables study

* Energetics, EPA Victoria win CitySwitch awards

* New website rates emissions performance of container ships, tankers

* Tasmania seeks comment on state taxes and sustainability

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld a decision by the Federal environment minister not to grant a company a hazardous waste export permit for 4,000 tonnes of lead acid batteries, ruling that they can and should be recycled in Australia.

• Shell seeks special permit to export hazardous waste
  
• Queensland delays 5% ethanol mandate due to Federal 'uncertainties'
  
• International alliance details key climate finance measures
  
• Infigen proposes $150 million solar farm
  
• Origin on track for 2020 emissions intensity target