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• AGL boosts coal clean-up provisions by $69m
  
• Frydenberg introduces bill to axe networks appeal process
  
• NZ kicks off low-carbon economy inquiry

• ACT battery storage tender draws 17 bids
  
• Queensland orders industry to remove legacy firefighting foams
  
• Fourth beef producer approved to earn carbon credits

The ACT Supreme Court has refused to give two companies that are facing a $10 million contaminated soil lawsuit significantly more time to file their defences.

A high-level meeting between senior state environmental bureaucrats and representatives of Australia's largest companies has discussed a range of issues that could be regulated more consistently across the nation.

• WA to revamp water trading rules
  
• ACT opens its borders to other environment agencies
  
• Queensland to review contaminated sites legislation

An ACT tribunal has rejected a company's argument that its rates shouldn't increase because of possible site contamination, but also found that the new site valuation should have considered the cost of assessing contamination and removing an underground tank.

Eight years after a company signed a contract to buy a site after a wood treatment business had remediated it, the ACT Supreme Court has ruled the seller was only required to clean-up soil and not groundwater.

Environment and water ministers today approved changes to the contaminated sites NEPM, released a draft RIS on managing chemical environmental risks and proposed a national approach to biobanking.

• Gillard to attend Rio+20 environmental summit
  
• Court orders mine to pay $85,000, after $10m clean up
  
• LNG plant EIS details cumulative impacts of Gladstone projects
  
• ACT large-scale solar auction draws 49 proposals

Most companies are closely watching the Federal carbon price push – and the likely outlines of a deal are starting to emerge – but state, territory and local governments are also taking action that has major implications for business.