Browsing: <a href="/tag/sa">SA</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/resource-efficiency-waste">Resource efficiency, waste</a>

• Pension fund divests $1.1 billion stake in Rio Tinto over West Irian mine
  
• Energy users crunch the numbers on gas
  
• Farm company to pay $20,000 for EPBC Act breach
  
• SA waste program targets small business

• EEO changes kick in, as new reporting scheme kicks off
  
• Rudd and Turnbull spar on trading
  
• Less than 4% of energy R&D directed to energy efficiency
  
• Coles, Woolworths and IGA to trial voluntary plastic bag scheme
  
• Environment groups launch ‘low carbon’ website, Greenpeace releases Hunter Valley report
  
• SA EPA audit finds poor compliance in surface coatings sector

• Garnaut to hold town hall meetings
  
• SA bag-banning bill goes before Parliament
  
• Garrett tweaks impact assessment process for Great Barrier Reef
  
• EPA Victoria issues greenhouse inventory
  
• NSW seeks nominations to chair environmental education council

• Australia to fund PNG forest carbon monitoring
  
• Capital cities set to cooperate on national green CBDs scheme
  
• Victorian climate adaptation advisory council holds inaugural meeting
  
• EPA Victoria inks sustainability covenant with Carbon Disclosure Project
  
• South Australia proposes landfill guidelines, Victoria issues landfill guide
  
• 'Keep thinking outside the bauxite', Pew climate chief tells aluminium industry

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

Queensland's climate change strategy is less than a year old, but new scientific findings and the changing policy landscape mean it must be updated, says state climate change minister Andrew McNamara. Plus:

* South Australia poised to mandate efficiency action by energy retailers

* I've got an open mind on container deposit schemes, says Victorian Premier

* Engineers throw their support behind Garnaut

NSW pollution prosecutions steady * Uranium exploration company investigated * Australia and New Zealand tackle inefficient chillers * Wong to attend U.S. climate summit * NZ government says 2025 free allocation deadline not fixed in stone *



WBCSD launches 'eco-patent commons' scheme * Asia-Pacific Partnership releases 'clean steel' handbook * Victoria and Queensland issue new eco-efficiency tips