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• Victorian contaminated sites reforms save business $4m annually
  
• WA regulator keeps tight rein on transparency in decision-making
  
• NT EPA proposes waste strategy

The NSW EPA has called for further changes to the air quality NEPM and has shed more light on how its revamped licensing scheme will work.

The Pilbara is one of Australia's 15 biodiversity hotspots, yet land clearing for mining in the region has grown exponentially and revegetation efforts aren't working, according to the WA EPA.

EPA Victoria is to trial a new program to liberate businesses with good environmental records from intrusive compliance obligations, and will rely more heavily on auditors to decide whether site clean-ups are satisfacto

• Inghams slow to deal with odour complaints
  
• NSW EPA allows AGL to trial predictive NOx monitoring at gas plant
  
• EPA Victoria issues approvals guidelines
  
• NSW approves Orica Botany clean-up plan changes

In a year of huge regulatory change for environmental managers, the Federal Government has started the process of handing core environmental responsibilities to states and abolishing carbon charges for large emitters, while all governments began targeting 'green tape'.

• Queensland finalises standard conditions for more industries
  
• BCA backs Queensland EPBC deal; 'Too broad', say NGOs
  
• Big step forward for BHPB efforts to remediate steelworks
  
• Victoria revises vehicle emission regulations

Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has instructed the Office of the Supervising Scientist to investigate a spill at the Ranger uranium mine, caused by the failure of a leach tank.

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.

The South Australian Parliament has passed a bill that prevents the EPA from tightening lead emission licence limits applying to Nyrstar's Port Pirie smelter unless either the company or the State's Minister for Manufacturing agrees.