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A Footprint analysis of carbon credit projects, renewables investment and energy productivity initiatives shows NSW has snared the lion's share of ERF revenue, and Queensland is set to dominate large-scale solar.

• ARENA to assess up to 2,500MW of Tassie pumped hydro
  
• Climate Council warns against gas investment
  
• New study examines carbon farming in the Pilbara

• New projects approved to earn credits
  
• Study urges agri-business energy demonstration projects
  
• How to use less steel and cement in construction: analysis
  
• Agency rethinks approach to distributed energy report

Labor has stormed into office in the Northern Territory promising to rewrite environment laws and consider carbon emissions when large new projects are assessed.

• ACT battery storage tender draws 17 bids
  
• Queensland orders industry to remove legacy firefighting foams
  
• Fourth beef producer approved to earn carbon credits

• Qantas and RM Williams team up on carbon
  
• NSW renewables plan imminent
  
• Climate department chief reflects on carbon scheme claims

• Four more industries gain partial RET exemptions
  
• New EEO regulation lays ground for scheme expansion
  
• New CFI carbon credit determination finalised
  
• Treasury seeks tenders for advisory energy finance panel

• Water planning rules need review: Victorian Tribunal
  
• Victoria establishes smart meter advisory council
  
• CO2 Australia tests new eucalypt in first Queensland project
  
• Queensland reviews licensing regulations for solar hot water installations

New projects that use native forest biomass to generate energy might still be allowed to benefit under the Renewable Energy Target scheme if key independents stick with a plan to disallow newly-gazetted regulations.

• Ferguson appoints manager of $200m renewables venture capital fund
  
• 'Hockey stick' climatologist: 'we hold the future in our hands' (with video)
  
• Carbon credits rules finalised for native forest plantings
  
• Architect of EPA Victoria transformation takes up new post