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Legislation introducing new requirements for managing coastal erosion has passed the NSW Lower House, despite an Opposition warning that its complexity will have lawyers 'salivating' and that it fails to indemnify state authorities for climate change-related damage to major projects.

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• Controversy over climate action video ad; Royal Society science guide

• NSW energy efficiency scheme dominated by one activity
  
• WA to tweak conditions for $2.5 billion chemical project
  
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• Top scientist speaks out against 'climate denial industry' (with audio)

• Victorian report ticks smart meters
  
• NSW releases new sea-level rise guides
  
• Qld councils join forces on green waste

• Majority of Australians wary of industry climate 'scare campaigns'
  
• Tasmanian report outlines climate change effects
  
• NSW wind farm court challenge averted

A newly-released NSW planning guideline explains how development should be assessed within a coastal risk area based on a likely 2100 sea level rise of 90cm and proposes measures including 'time-limited' development consents.

• 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

• 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

• Urgent action needed to deal with forestry water use: National Water Commission
  
• CPRS was the line in the sand: Senator Troeth
  
• NSW Parliament releases sea-level rise briefing paper

A company that this month won consent for a proposed 201-home project on condition that it dismantle and move houses if coastal erosion encroaches has potentially had its plans thrown into disarray by a court ruling that it unlawfully cleared the site and an order to remediate it.