Browsing: Victoria

• TRUenergy wins $100 million Victorian solar plant grant
  
• NSW to phase out landfill caps
  
• NAB shines in new Carbon Disclosure Project analysis
  
• OECD to U.S. – pricing carbon is the 'cornerstone' measure

• Rio Tinto's revised Weipa EPBC referral proposes massive dredging expansion
  
• EPA Victoria successful in all 13 prosecutions in 2009-10
  
• Victoria joins global electric vehicle campaign
  
• ACT releases clean economy scoping study

• Third anniversary of Coalition's 'first step' to trading
  
• Last chance to register for free NGER webinar
  
• Pressure builds for states to act on climate
  
• EPA Victoria releases landfill levy guidance

• Coal gasification plant submits revised bid for approval
  
• Change the NEM rules: Pac Hydro
  
• 'Emerging technologies caught in 'Catch-22''
  
• Sydney City Council seeks help with green retrofits
  
• Energy Networks Association issues smart grid strategy
  
• Transpacific fined for poor landfill practices

• Xstrata fined $100,000 over contaminated discharge
  
• Could climate portfolio be split?
  
• Sustainability index dumps Coca-Cola Amatil, Leighton, adds Rio Tinto
  
• Barwon Water seeks approval for water recycling plant
  
• Less than two weeks to go to register for NGER webcast

Victoria's EPA has gained new powers to regulate industry greenhouse gas emissions following the passage of a landmark climate change bill that also mandates a statewide 20% cut in emissions by 2020.

• Victorian report ticks smart meters
  
• NSW releases new sea-level rise guides
  
• Qld councils join forces on green waste

• SA EPA stays silent on $80,000 court win over polluter
  
• SA issues stockpiling guide for new waste policy
  
• Council fined over hazardous waste in landfill
  
• Victoria invites sustainable energy funding applications

• Free CE Daily NGERs webinar
  
• States overlooking non-industrial air pollution: business group
  
• Victoria establishes solar energy office and working group

In a discussion paper issued today, EPA Victoria canvasses potential new approaches to compliance and enforcement, which it will explain at forums across the state over the next six weeks.