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The Turnbull government's 2018 environmental agenda will affect importers of new chemicals, companies required to report pollutant emissions, suppliers of products that lead to problem wastes, and facilities that emit large quantities of greenhouse gas.

• NSW waste infrastructure strategy identifies major gaps
  
• Changes flagged for calculating energy bill relief going to large emitters
  
• Parliament votes through product emissions bill

• Sydney City and other major councils to appear at energy from waste inquiry
  
• PFOS impact statement due soon
  
• Whitehaven urged to improve dust controls and monitoring

• Victoria's home insulation plans criticised
  
• ACCC inquiry misdirected, says electricity industry
  
• Court allows open-air stockpiles, with 'plan B' proviso

• Xenophon to vote against ARENA cuts
  
• Licence breaches lead to investigation order
  
• EPA orders oil company to assess pollution monitoring options

In a presentation with a positive note for Australia's LNG industry, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development has suggested that large ships should run on LNG instead of bunker fuels as the most efficient way to meet new emission standards in some regions.

• WA Labor disquiet over special laws for major sites
  
• Hanson Construction issued with noise notice
  
• Bitupave issued with odour notice
  
• Boral joins forces with carbon storage start-up

• Sydney Water, BHP Billiton enter guilty pleas
  
• WA poised to drop approvals process for 'low-impact' activities
  
• Queensland regulator issues update on gas contamination

• Poor measurement to blame for 'doubling' in Hazelwood's particle emissions
  
• Orica faces court order after cyanide discharges
  
• Call to use government contracts to improve sustainability
  
• Geothermal trial receives Victorian grant
  
• Combet unfazed by claims of Constitutional breach