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New data shows an increase in the percentage of children with unsafe blood levels in Port Pirie, home to Nyrstar's lead and zinc smelter, prompting calls from the South Australian Government for the company to provide 'an explanation and a plan of action'.

• COAG keeps lid on climate review
  
• Senate committee recommends 'full carbon accounting'
  
• Coalition and Greens criticise 'green cooling' funding suspension
  
• Economists call for comprehensive scheme coverage
  
• Plenty of scope to boost stewardship payments, CSIRO study says
  
• SA EPA air report indicates Nyrstar lead emissions still a concern
  
• Victoria's sustainability commissioner issues inaugural report
  
• EPA Victoria issues corporate licence to Fonterra

• SA prepared to 'go it alone' on key wastes
  
• Report assesses research gaps on climate change and emergency services
  
• Queensland EPA sets out plans for Gladstone air study
  
• Victorian program targets water use in cafés

• Queensland to introduce new geothermal legislation
  
• Insurers won't cover CCS, says Shell
  
• Trading scheme will drive shift to clean energy, says Climate Institute
  
• SA wine industry the major user of treated timber
  
• National Pollutant Inventory issues revised handbooks

Environment ministers today failed to reach agreement on a national ban or levy for plastic bags, prompting South Australia to vow to go ahead with a state ban.



But they committed to an investigation into the merits of a national container deposit scheme and flagged that e-waste would be high on the agenda at its November meeting.

• Rudd flags soil carbon push
  
• Sustainable buildings council briefs Garrett and Garnaut on 'white certificates' trading proposal
  
• Queensland EPA charges company directors over PCBs
  
• South Australia to ban plastic bags by year's end

Energy ministers approve 'stage two' energy efficiency package * Magistrate fines construction company $95,000 * Carbon risk – more than 40 ASX200 companies could suffer material losses * National Pollutant Inventory releases new guidance * NSW offers renewables funding * Sydney Water issues water conservation guidelines * SA approves $40 million foundry expansion

Release of a study showing abnormally high rates of lung cancer in Whyalla, has prompted the SA government to announce it will mandate high-dust-day limits for OneSteel's Whyalla steelworks, two years after it pushed through legislation giving the steelworks a licence with no dust level limits.