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An NT government decision to significantly reduce the environmental bond that Glencore must provide for its McArthur River lead and zinc mine has prompted a Supreme Court review.

Defence is doing 'good work' to reduce the impacts of PFAS on the town of Katherine, but it is in the council's interests to remain part of a class action against it, councillors have been advised.

• NT reveals $1.28 billion in bonds provided by nine mines
  
• Defence seeks PFAS expertise
  
• Unpaid licence fees lead to fine for illegal transport of asbestos

• Mine rehabilitation inquiry schedules first hearing
  
• Uranium company announces EPBC approval
  
• Inpex pays for air monitoring in Darwin
  
• Tasmania to tighten controls on salmon farming

• Monitoring reveals wider area of contamination centred on Linc plant
  
• SA to ban fire-foam chemicals
  
• NT launches water licence review

• Minister investigates heritage impact of Shenhua coal mine
  
• EPA issues new contamination guidelines
  
• Efficiency scheme alters lighting rules

• SA EPA civil penalties to rise
  
• EPA Victoria appoints new auditors
  
• Nuplex ordered to investigate toxic chemical emissions
  
• NT EDO beats closure deadline

• Victorian contaminated sites reforms save business $4m annually
  
• WA regulator keeps tight rein on transparency in decision-making
  
• NT EPA proposes waste strategy

In a year of huge regulatory change for environmental managers, the Federal Government has started the process of handing core environmental responsibilities to states and abolishing carbon charges for large emitters, while all governments began targeting 'green tape'.

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.