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• Garrett moves on national waste policy
  
• SA environment court fines waste firm $460,000
  
• Former World Bank chief to head Rudd's CCS advisory council
  
• NSW launches biodiversity 'credits wanted' service
  
• More Gore – new book out in November

What will the Rudd Government's planned insulation give-away mean for insulation components of the South Australian and Victorian household energy efficiency schemes and for NSW's looming energy efficiency scheme?

• Woodside's offshore processing claim – carbon leakage or pre-existing economics?
  
• IEA warns of 6°C rise
  
• SA Parliament passes bag ban bill, EPHC issues bag trial report
  
• Ministers release wind farm report
  
• AIGN issues climate briefs
  
• Recyclers welcome NSW waste levy boost

• Milne to re-introduce feed-in tariff bill in wake of Senate inquiry
  
• NSW waste levy changes prompts warning
  
• NSW to rewrite biodiversity strategy
  
• Alcoa puts Wagerup expansion on hold citing financial crisis, ETS concerns
  
• South Australia audits quarries
  
• How Kraft plans to save $550,000 a year and cut water use 39%

NSW Land and Environment Court Chief Justice Brian Preston has ordered poultry processor Baiada to pay $120,000 plus prosecutor's costs, on top of clean-up and rectification costs totalling more than $44,700, after sub-standard plumbing work caused a spill of a million litres of effluent. Meanwhile, a South Australian court fines Transpacific $15,000 after effluent escaped into a wetland.

• Garnaut to hold town hall meetings
  
• SA bag-banning bill goes before Parliament
  
• Garrett tweaks impact assessment process for Great Barrier Reef
  
• EPA Victoria issues greenhouse inventory
  
• NSW seeks nominations to chair environmental education council

An OECD review of Australia's environmental performance says serious breaches are 'inadequately prosecuted' in some jurisdictions and recommends that enforcement be strengthened, especially against big polluters.



The OECD also says voluntary measures often don't have 'meaningful' monitoring and compliance mechanisms and recommends greater use of economic instruments.

NSW pollution prosecutions steady * Uranium exploration company investigated * Australia and New Zealand tackle inefficient chillers * Wong to attend U.S. climate summit * NZ government says 2025 free allocation deadline not fixed in stone *



WBCSD launches 'eco-patent commons' scheme * Asia-Pacific Partnership releases 'clean steel' handbook * Victoria and Queensland issue new eco-efficiency tips