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• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum

• Government to register CFI auditors
  
• International carbon company takes stake in local business
  
• Sims seeks hazardous waste permit

Shadow Climate Change Minister Greg Hunt has told CE Daily a Coalition Government might modify a requirement that offset projects store carbon for 100 years, but Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says it would result in 'phoney' reductions.

• Government proposes new forestry carbon credit rules
  
• WA EPA launches 'waste-to-energy' review
  
• WA Health intervenes in major expansion of oil recycling facility

Forthcoming Carbon Farming Initiative regulations will determine whether other Australian carbon credits can be converted to CFI credits and used to meet carbon price scheme liabilities, according to Norton Rose national head of climate change Elisa de Wit.

• Ferguson appoints manager of $200m renewables venture capital fund
  
• 'Hockey stick' climatologist: 'we hold the future in our hands' (with video)
  
• Carbon credits rules finalised for native forest plantings
  
• Architect of EPA Victoria transformation takes up new post

• Queensland reworks coal seam gas water policy
  
• 'Successful at modest cost': IPART's verdict on NSW trading scheme
  
• CFI carbon credits scheme seeks technical experts; offers grants

Queensland's Parliament has passed legislation to impose landfill levies on industrial, commercial and construction wastes from December 1 and amend existing laws so landholders can participate in the Carbon Farming Initiative.

• Funding on offer for energy efficiency projects
  
• Shopping centres now 20% more water efficient, CFS reports
  
• Combet and Hunt in carbon turf war
  
• NT EPA seeks feedback on performance

The House of Representatives today formally accepted the Carbon Farming Initiative bill as amended by the Senate, with Shadow Climate Change Minister Greg Hunt affirming that a future Coalition Government would not repeal the scheme.