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Tasmania launches first stage of Climate Change Act review

* Visy steamed up over 'clean energy' plant

* Flemington racecourse to install six more desalination plants

* Clean Energy Council criticises native forest biomass RET ban

* CO2 Group reports record revenue

* Carbon scheme won't have material impact, Incitec Pivot tells ASX

* Combet names land sector carbon board members

• Galilee coal mine would have 'negligible' climate impact: EIS
  
• Don't allow 100%+ free permit allocations, carbon committee told
  
• Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd signs 100-unit deal
  
• Energy efficiency a winner for casinos, Crown says
  
• EPA Victoria, waste managers sign Sustainability Covenant

• Carbon bills a 'political suicide note', Abbott tells Parliament
  
• Plastic packaging company cuts annual energy bill by $200,000
  
• NSW reviews native vegetation regulation
  
• EPA Victoria in court over coal plant challenge
  
• WA solar power station won't need EPBC Act scrutiny

Printing company Focus Press has become only the second organisation to achieve gold status in the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, capping off a ten-year environmental transformation that has saved the company more than $700,000 in landfill fees and electricity costs.

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

• Carbon Trust certifies NAB's 'carbon neutral' status
  
• Mobil seeks approval to export 10,000 tonnes of hazardous waste
  
• Combet seeks to calm farm sector fears, as Garnaut readies land-use paper
  
• Government to host e-waste forums

Marketing and distribution company Metcash has identified significant energy and water savings, after joining the NSW environment department's Sustainability Advantage scheme, according to the company's sustainability manager, Louise Rhodes.

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

• Council to pay $131,000 penalty for EPBC Act breach
  
• Court fines quarry for breaching production limits
  
• New guide details how to use crushed glass in construction work
  
• Albanese issues urban policy paper

A Sydney metal electroplating company has slashed its water use by 89% after introducing innovative technology that enables it to recycle the rinse water it uses in its production process.