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• Ex-environment department chief to head oil spill inquiry
  
• Businesses hold climate talks with premiers
  
• Westpac moves on carbon risk and trading
  
• 'What Labor won't tell you': Nationals warn of 20% hit to regional economies
  
• Policy highlights and flops: WWF commissions global analysis

• Ministers seek input on energy use benchmarking
  
• EPHC releases wind farm development guidelines
  
• Sydney development signs to Clinton Climate Initiative

• Combet denies $50bn surplus
  
• Bring the RET back and fix it: Milne to Senate
  
• ManheimFowles cuts mains water use by 73%

• Move early to grid-connect geothermal and save millions, study says
  
• Overhaul electricity tariffs, Queensland competition body says
  
• Senate drops climate change inquiry
  
• EPA Victoria teams with freight sector
  
• UK Government urged to use 'procurement muscle'

The first 'Solar Cities' project to launch - in Sydney's Blacktown - has delivered energy savings worth more than a million dollars a year, along with greenhouse gas cuts. CE Daily looks at how it's fared as businesses and households struggle with the economic downturn.

• AMWU calls for trading without delay
  
• Solar PV will achieve 'grid parity' by 2014, Canberra told
  
• News Ltd joins UNEP climate network

• Milne to re-introduce feed-in tariff bill in wake of Senate inquiry
  
• NSW waste levy changes prompts warning
  
• NSW to rewrite biodiversity strategy
  
• Alcoa puts Wagerup expansion on hold citing financial crisis, ETS concerns
  
• South Australia audits quarries
  
• How Kraft plans to save $550,000 a year and cut water use 39%

• Tasmania ambivalent on feed-in tariffs
  
• Government seeks help with OSCAR, gives more time for comment
  
• $90 million Green Building Fund invites first-round applications
  
• Thiess chairman, News Ltd, Leighton pick up Queensland sustainability awards

• Green Building Council launches factory rating tool
  
• Tasmanian minister sets agenda for EPA
  
• NSW planning department invites comment on 1,000MW wind farm

• NSW Coalition backs feed-in tariff
  
• Federal energy efficiency scheme to run courses on new reporting procedure
  
• Clean Energy Council works on streamlining grid connections, gets new chief
  
• New chief scientist sidesteps greenhouse gas questions
  
• Alcoa Australia climate program heads to the U.S.
  
• IEA reviews best-practice renewable energy policies