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• NSW introduces five-tier sustainability scheme
  
• ESAA urges fair tax treatment for geothermal, slams NSW tariff plan
  
• Energy ministers release draft legislation on smart meters
  
• Queensland EPA releases guide to legislative changes
  
• New Zealand Parliament seeks submissions on trading scheme
  
• U.S. coalition unveils 'Obama-era' trading blueprint

• Energy efficiency scheme RIS deficient, ESAA tells inquiry
  
• Oil leak costs company $135,000
  
• Slater & Gordon initiates third claim over Mount Isa lead
  
• Greens pick up fourth ACT seat
  
• Ferguson launches biofuels grant round
  
• Don't squander U.S. policy momentum, Pew Centre warns

• Bligh flags new clean energy office, but no new resources
  
• Many data gaps to fill, says CSIRO climate change and fisheries study
  
• Coastal climate study urges changes to planning and approval processes
  
• Pew Centre issues guide to McCain and Obama climate policies
  
• World Bank boosts renewables spending, APEC to study urban use of renewables

• Rudd urges global ‘grand bargain’ on climate change
  
• EPA Victoria: ‘we’ve got an open mind on hazardous waste reforms’
  
• Queensland EPA issues emissions report card

• Wong to skip 'major economies' meeting
  
• Stern backs equal per capita climate rights by 2050
  
• Survey finds mixed views on climate response economic impacts
  
• South Australian Upper House passes ethical super amendments
  
• Queensland state of the environment report notes burgeoning coal industry

NSW today introduced a bill to establish a 'clean coal' fund that could receive hefty contributions from the coal industry. But, unlike similar Queensland legislation passed last year, it doesn't commit the state to lobby for industry contributions to be treated as offsets under an emissions trading regime.



Meanwhile, Prime Minister Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong announced funding for cleaner coal projects in China and for a carbon accounting pilot project to help China prepare for 'possible participation in future global carbon markets'.

• Rudd and Somare sign forest carbon partnership
  
  
  
• Stern hits back at Productivity Commission
  
  
  
• 'Poor environmental record' prompts EPA Victoria to oppose licence
  
  
  
• Queensland court hands down suspended jail sentence for polluter

• Rudd and Clarke to cooperate on emissions trading
  
• Caltex hits out at world-first move on transport emissions
  
• A matter of principle; how Wong and Tanner will decide what climate programs to chop
  
• Clinton Climate Initiative to back Latrobe Valley carbon capture project?
  
• Queensland leads in GreenPower growth
  
• Environmental lawyers call for tougher rules on GHG reporting compliance
  
• Packaging covenant council names non-compliant firms
  
• Keep trading simple and don't have a price cap, says EC

Soaring WA gas prices a 'greenhouse risk' says industry alliance; Qld amends environmental legislation; NSW offers green business grants; Concerns over slowing absorption of CO2; Pew Centre joins alliance to look at 'quality' offsets; NZ joins EU, US and Canadian carbon markets partnership; Greens call for home energy efficiency subsidies; NSW aerial sprayer fined