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• Court rules Queensland environment department 'plainly wrong'
  
• Queensland Government backs large-scale solar
  
• Court orders abbattoir to pay $60,000 after effluent discharge
  
• EPA Victoria halves zero carbon costs, excludes GreenPower
  
• Tasmania issues coastal works manual

ACT Assembly passes law to ban plastic bags

* Silex to raise $89 million to fund pilot solar PV power plants

* Sydney councils propose new recycling and composting facilities

* Consultant sought for Western Australia renewables study

* Energetics, EPA Victoria win CitySwitch awards

* New website rates emissions performance of container ships, tankers

* Tasmania seeks comment on state taxes and sustainability

• Combet moves early to rein in solar PV support
  
• WA miners release environment code for exploration work
  
• Qantas appoints new carbon offset supplier
  
• NSW tightens grant rules after losing $425,000 to wound-up company
  
• Australian Services Union issues green guide

• Coal gasification plant submits revised bid for approval
  
• Change the NEM rules: Pac Hydro
  
• 'Emerging technologies caught in 'Catch-22''
  
• Sydney City Council seeks help with green retrofits
  
• Energy Networks Association issues smart grid strategy
  
• Transpacific fined for poor landfill practices

• NT Minister lobbies for national container deposit scheme
  
• NSW roads agency approves first project using crushed waste glass
  
• IEA sounds warning: emissions must peak by 2020
  
• U.S. provides $1.85 billion for two solar projects

Measures in an 18-point Green Jobs plan unveiled today by the Victorian Government include a $60 million spend on eight priority construction projects and streamlined approval procedures for renewable energy projects.

• Tax breaks help solar firm expand, NSW Parliament told
  
• Two coal projects make EPBC Act referrals
  
• U.S. Armed Forces tackle their carbon 'boot print'

• NT to put carbon price tag on land clearing applications
  
• Renewable energy centre bill clears Senate
  
• Queensland pulls plug on solar hot water rebate scheme
  
• Cadbury, Xerox and GPT in the running for sustainability prize

• India to impose clean energy levy on Australian coal imports
  
• Qantas to install tri-generation systems
  
• Rudd Government belatedly responds to Senate waste report
  
• NSW people less concerned by environmental problems, survey finds
  
• DCC sets out revised annual RET targets

Owners of commercial office buildings will be required from the second half of 2010 to provide energy efficiency ratings when they sell and lease office space, Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced today.