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• Enforceable undertaking: port deepening company to pay $75,000
  
• No CO2 offsets required of BHP/Mitsubishi coal mine
  
• BlueScope: trading or a carbon tax is the best for Australia
  
• Faragher tweaks conditions on WA port expansion
  
• NZ scientists slam 'obscure, ridiculous' High Court challenge by sceptics

• Lawyers for WA Conservation Council urge minister to hold uranium mine inquiry
  
• Regulator rules PV owners losing off-peak tariff to be compensated
  
• Australians more confident in government action on environment
  
• WSAA releases urban water metering framework

• Queensland passes law to control disposal of coal seam gas water
  
• Energy networks association defends smart meter roll-out
  
• WA investigating feed-in tariff for business

• Government receives 52 Solar Flagships bids
  
• WA 'red-tape' inquiry calls for environmental approval changes
  
• Queensland suspends solar rebate scheme
  
• Victorian Liberals query carbon storage liability provision

• Turnbull, Hunt slam CPRS bills
  
• SA lifts renewables target
  
• WA backflips on solar PV tariff
  
• Victoria to rescale value of energy efficiency scheme certificates
  
• Rudd Government moves on solar flagships scheme

• Move more quickly to deploy low emission technologies, say mining union and NSW minerals council
  
• NSW releases GGAS transition consultation paper
  
• Victoria issues ballast water protocol
  
• WA releases urban development guide on acid sulfate soils
  
  *'Wait to see details of Australian trading scheme', industry group tells NZ parliamentary inquiry

An OECD review of Australia's environmental performance says serious breaches are 'inadequately prosecuted' in some jurisdictions and recommends that enforcement be strengthened, especially against big polluters.



The OECD also says voluntary measures often don't have 'meaningful' monitoring and compliance mechanisms and recommends greater use of economic instruments.