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Mining company Vista Gold claimed that heavy rainfall caused an uncontrolled release of contaminated water from its Mount Todd mine site, but the Northern Territory EPA has pointed to inadequate systems and a failure to follow the company's water management plan.

A high-level meeting between senior state environmental bureaucrats and representatives of Australia's largest companies has discussed a range of issues that could be regulated more consistently across the nation.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills has introduced a bill to overhaul the Territory's EPA and make it responsible for conducting environmental assessments.

• NT bill to overhaul EPA expected next month
  
• NSW spells out changes to sea-level rise law
  
• SA paves way for environmental upgrade agreements

• NSW regulator lowers 'fair' estimate of feed-in tariff
  
• Sydney City teams with Low Carbon Australia
  
• Fleet owners continue to reduce CO2 emissions faster than private
  
• Mediation aims to resolve NT container deposit teething problems
  
• Iron ore company says port development could be major 'green grid' user
  
• Oil refiners must adapt quickly to survive: Accenture

• EPA Victoria to overhaul licence and audit fees
  
• Miner cautiously welcomes three-year NT veto on seabed mining
  
• Experts sought for coal seam gas and mining panel
  
• Two more carbon-neutral certifications granted
  
• Environmental regulators discuss international enforcement
  
• Victoria spends $3.5m on rural landfill upgrades

The first in a regular new CE Daily series that details what to look out for over the next few weeks, including regulatory changes, new grant schemes and federal and state policy proposals open for comment.

The Northern Territory Government has circulated a draft bill to key stakeholders that will introduce a new offence of 'unauthorised pollution', whether or not it causes environmental harm.

The Northern Territory's independent EPA today signalled that it will closely monitor the readiness and response of regulatory agencies to releases of pollutants at two locations during recent cyclone-generated torrential rainfall.

A company that claimed the NT environment department had been evasive, elusive and threatening has secured some changes to guidelines it must follow when preparing an EIS for its proposed mining project near Batchelor.