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• Challenge to NSW remediation order fails
  
• Industry associations share $20m in energy efficiency grants
  
• Commission details views on smart meters and privacy
  
• New draft GreenPower rules issued
  
• EPA Victoria seeks feedback on key reforms

Prime Minister Julia Gillard's summit meeting with premiers, chief ministers and business leaders today agreed to streamline EPBC assessments and approvals and end duplication in carbon and energy schemes.

• Slurry 'frac-out' into wetland costs driller $173,000
  
• Failure to check boundary costs company more than $80,000
  
• Solar Systems launches 16-dish PV demo plant

• ACT kicks off large-scale solar auction
  
• Queensland's cropland protection regime in force from today
  
• Pollution prompts Hunt to seek new Port Philip Bay plan

• $350m 'carbon price' write-down for TRUenergy power plant
  
• No place for alternative fuel mandates, new Federal strategy says
  
• Coal mine penalised $117,000
  
• Victoria makes EPBC referral justifying 'strategic' alpine grazing
  
• Focus $10bn clean energy body on RD&D, not deployment, says ESAA

• Orica defends NPI emissions data
  
• Combet names start date for carbon scheme regulator
  
• Government's native forest biomass RET ban plan 'disingenuous': AFPA
  
• Woodside issues draft EIS for Browse offshore
  
• Environment group makes EPBC referral for 6m-hectare biodiversity audit

• Council urged to let Coles off the hook on renewables
  
• Court imposes $200,000 land clearing fine
  
• Australia moves up in global renewables ranking

A Senate report on a bill to prevent imports of illegally logged timber has proposed substantial changes, while a separate Senate report into wind farms has played it safe, reaching no firm conclusions.

• Greens and independents urge new renewables fix
  
• Sydney's waste an ideal aviation fuel resource: Qantas chief
  
• Burke proposes to reject $950 million Great Barrier Reef development
  
• Combet selects 13 projects for climate change adaptation funding

• BCA wary of 'formal' efficiency schemes, backs smart meters
  
• Network businesses make limited progress on demand management
  
• Godfrey Hirst, Grocon pick up Victorian sustainability awards
  
• Forests NSW punished over charred 'smoky mouse' habitat
  
• Solar roundtable offers chance to fix ailing flagship scheme, Milne says