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• 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

• Green depreciation and FBT reforms feature in tax review submissions
  
• Robb toughens Coalition stance on scheme delay
  
• Victoria to investigate carbon market institute
  
• South Australia proposes new water policy

• 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

NSW Land and Environment Court Chief Justice Brian Preston has ordered poultry processor Baiada to pay $120,000 plus prosecutor's costs, on top of clean-up and rectification costs totalling more than $44,700, after sub-standard plumbing work caused a spill of a million litres of effluent. Meanwhile, a South Australian court fines Transpacific $15,000 after effluent escaped into a wetland.

• Good 'corporate character' fails to convince judge not to record conviction
  
  
  
• Productivity Commission quibbles with, but praises, Stern
  
  
  
• Property Council pushes for Adelaide CBD cooling towers to use recycled water
  
  
  
• TEC, EnergyAustralia disagree on coupling 'smart meters' with in-home displays
  
  
  
• EPA Victoria issues HazWaste Fund guide

• Travelling north: Wong, Garrett and Garnaut head to PNG
  
• Federal government seeks advice on renewables target scheme revamp
  
• Productivity Commission to investigate 'regulatory burden' on upstream oil and gas
  
• G8 business groups set out climate policy expectations; IEA chief urges action; APP to meet again
  
• EPA Victoria issues urban design water guide, SA EPA issues wastewater irrigation guide

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.

• GM crops an export boon, says ABARE
  
• Auto industry review seeks feedback on travel-based taxes
  
• Deloitte to advise on NT's climate policy
  
• South Australia to introduce new water heater standards
  
• Victorian regulator proposes regional water price increases

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

GHG permits likely to be worth $105 billion over a decade; Gore sees 'limited role' for nuclear; EBA seeks clean energy pledges from major parties; Qenos signs major recycled water deal; SA sets out details of licence fee restructure.