Browsing: Tasmania

• Cougar Energy defends performance in face of Queensland charges
  
• Tasmania seeks comment on new agvet chemicals regulations
  
• Climate politicians to speak at upcoming business conference
  
• Carbon agency to fund office block retrofit

• Greens wary of Kelty's forests deal
  
• Key portfolios mar federal agency progress on energy efficiency
  
• Victoria gazettes new contaminated soil requirements

• WA backs new Kimberley conservation strategy with $63 million
  
• Garnaut to hold forums in NSW, Queensland
  
• EPA Victoria signs sustainability covenant with bank
  
• Combet announces adaptation grants
  
• Nominations open for WA water awards
  
• Tasmanian Government hosts energy efficiency workshops

• New study shows jobs at risk, black coal industry says
  
• Government adds two to Low Carbon Australia board
  
• Victoria offers new rebates, as NSW phases out subsidy scheme
  
• Pitt & Sherry wins Tasmanian sustainability award

• Tasmania to review legislated greenhouse target
  
• Victorian trial paves way for waste paint reuse in concrete
  
• Corporate Express cuts emissions by 17%

King Island Abattoir owner Swift Australia has successfully argued to a Tasmanian tribunal that it should not be required to pay a bond or meet milestones for the clean-up of a waterway that became severely polluted under previous ownership.

• ACCC approves levy on paint sales to fund recycling trial
  
• NSW council releases sea-level rise policy
  
• Gunns asks Tasmanian EPA to vary pulp mill permit
  
• Time to rebuild public transport infrastructure, ACF says
  
• ESAA urges Garnaut to rethink power sector proposals

Plans by Gunns for a new pulp mill in the Tamar Valley should undergo independent review as part of efforts to resolve 'a reservoir of cynicism and bitterness', according to an interim report by former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty, released today.

• Victoria canvasses views on expanding energy efficiency scheme
  
• NSW water utility should have ISO14001-certified system, IPART says
  
• Tasmania seeks EPA board nominations

• 'Strong case for less industry assistance under post-CPRS policy': economist
  
• Climate department updates work on industry assistance
  
• Regulator slams Tasmanian water industry's environmental performance
  
• UN climate secretariat updates national commitments