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A new Queensland bill would stop companies that are in financial difficulty leaving it to the state to manage and clean up their sites, by empowering the environment department to target related businesses and executives.

• Hunt toughens stance on microbeads
  
• New bill reinstates rights to appeal against mines
  
• NSW asbestos reporting correction

• Queensland to introduce new vegetation management rules
  
• NSW publishes risk-based licensing guides
  
• Land and Environment Court to hear additional Santos challenge
  
• Australia Institute urges mine rehab and closure levy

• Hunt exempts minor roadworks from standard EPBC process
  
• New Queensland contamination rules now in force
  
• New guide to enforceable undertakings
  
• WA issues new mining guidelines

• SA EPA civil penalties to rise
  
• EPA Victoria appoints new auditors
  
• Nuplex ordered to investigate toxic chemical emissions
  
• NT EDO beats closure deadline

Hydraulic fracking for oil and gas has the potential to affect drinking water but in America there are few cases where this is known to have occurred, according to a major draft study by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The NSW Land and Environment Court has levied a $63,000 fine plus costs on the director of an earthmoving and haulage company who arranged for more than 3,500 tonnes of asbestos-contaminated waste to be removed from a Shell refinery site and illegally dumped at a rural residential property.

• Woodside sustainability report sets only two measurable targets
  
• Alcoa and Rio Tinto deal paves way for new WA national park
  
• EPA issues company with clean-up notice after cattle deaths

• EES out for demolition of nation's second largest refinery
  
• EPA trials 'citizen science' in industrial region
  
• Fracking inquiry calls for submissions

The WA Government has freed up more than $300 million in capital for mining companies by overhauling its approach to managing liability for rehabilitation, says the state's Auditor-General.