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Environment Minister Tony Burke today granted EPBC Act approval to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam expansion, on the same day that the South Australian Government gave it the go-ahead, with the Greens warning the project would create a 'carcinogenic mountain'.

• Sydney City proposes underground pipe network for waste
  
• EPA Victoria prosecutions up almost 100%
  
• Gunns ready to press ahead with pulp mill project
  
• EPA SA makes licences available online

• Three companies fined over sugar mill pollution
  
• EPA SA launches site contamination index
  
• Federal Government drafts new assessment bilateral agreement with WA

• Burke approves SA uranium mine expansion
  
• EPA cautions landowners after company fails to remove dumped waste from leased site
  
• ACT reviews Nature Conservation Act; seeks climate council members
  
• ACCC issues interim approval for fluorocarbons scheme
  
• Tasmania issues stormwater strategy

• WA program delivers major cuts in business water use
  
• AEMO: principles to remove barriers to decentralised energy systems
  
• New international alliance targets illegal wood trade
  
• Most shoppers won't pay more to be green: survey
  
• Mayors urge action on renewables, decentralised energy

• Garrett moves on national waste policy
  
• SA environment court fines waste firm $460,000
  
• Former World Bank chief to head Rudd's CCS advisory council
  
• NSW launches biodiversity 'credits wanted' service
  
• More Gore – new book out in November

• Rudd Government announces climate grant winners; fast-tracks solar facility
  
• Rann sets out SA sector agreements agenda
  
• Time to account for nature, Wentworth Group tells Senate

• Orica tries again to export HCB waste
  
• ESAA to Tasmania – congratulations, we don't like feed-in tariffs either
  
• Alliance calls for 'green new deal'
  
• Ferguson launches geothermal industry plan
  
• SA seeks EPBC Act approval for 'worst-case scenario' seawater flooding
  
• Emissions must peak by 2015, IPCC chief tells UN talks

• 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%

• SA unveils energy efficiency scheme requirements
  
• Victoria moves to implement carbon capture and storage legislation
  
• NT issues draft terms of reference for review of assessment law
  
• SA proposes noise guidelines for wind farms
  
• Insurers face 'a fork in the road' on climate change, report says
  
• Federal agency issues multiple chemical sensitivity report
  
• Environmental finance awards open for nominations