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Victoria last year used almost $200 million of landfill levy revenue to help finance a wide range of renewable energy, climate change, waste and biodiversity activities, according to a new government report.

• Clean energy advisory firm backs innovative tyre recycling technology
  
• Victoria provides $600,000 top-up for low-emissions brown coal R&D
  
• Mining and farm groups criticise 'crude' EPBC climate trigger bill

• New efficiency grants on offer for manufacturers
  
• NSW canvasses interest in pilot renewable energy zone
  
• Revised start date set for WA container deposit scheme
  
• Business heavyweight to co-chair NT Reconstruction Commission

• Hazelwood power station stacks demolished
  
• Procurement commitments needed to quickly deploy new technologies: ClimateWorks
  
• Bahrain to send aluminium smelting waste to Australia for testing

• ARENA to co-fund Queensland system strength study
  
• Make battery stewardship scheme mandatory, ACT says
  
• Bingo poised to benefit from stimulus infrastructure projects
  
• WA offers $20m to support FOGO deployment

Key industry associations and lobby groups are moving quickly to ensure job-creating clean economy projects feature prominently in stimulus packages.

• Battery companies ask ACCC for more time to assess stewardship scheme
  
• Real estate company gains approval for science-based targets
  
• Solar Victoria chief executive to help speed planning approvals

• Renewables jobs surged by 27%, says Bureau of Statistics
  
• Landfill operator seeks approval to accept PFAS waste
  
• NSW updates contaminated sites guidance

• 'Renewable methane' plant to test CO2 extraction from air
  
• Major shopping centre owner sets 2030 net-zero target
  
• Council to deploy four-bin collections, phase-out glyphosate