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Woodside is seeking EPBC approval for three floating LNG platforms that will emit 8.7 million tonnes of CO2 annually.

• NSW backs call for PM2.5 standard, new equipment controls
  
• WA waters down native vegetation clearing regulations
  
• Hunt signs off on new carbon offsets methodology

Requiring states to comply with onerous national standards as a condition of allowing them to grant EPBC approvals would be a mistake, according to the Western Australian Government.

• BHPB aims to set strategic assessment 'benchmark'
  
• Orica under NSW EPA scrutiny on two fronts
  
• Court fines WA developer for obstructing environment inspector

• Commbank meets carbon target
  
• Iron ore mine to pay wildlife conservancy $80,000 annually
  
• New panel to guide implementation of WA mining reforms

• More NSW licensees to operate under pollution reduction plans
  
• Canberra and WA update EPBC bilateral
  
• EPA Victoria issues new policies on remedial notices
  
• Minister grants EPBC approval for second Tasmanian iron ore mine

• Guidelines propose CSG and coal 'significant impact' criteria
  
• Company seeks permits to import more PNG hazardous waste
  
• Waste hierarchy not etched in stone, WA Government says

The WA EPA has recommended that a Rio Tinto subsidiary pay $750 per hectare of good-to-excellent condition native vegetation that it clears for a proposed new iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

The Western Australian EPA has recommended that a sand mining company be granted approval for a mine in the State's mid-west on condition that it acquire at least 2,000 hectares as an offset – which is 20% less land than the company offered.

• Alcoa pleads guilty to WA licence breach
  
• Canberra releases EPBC service charter
  
• Works approval sought for new outer-Melbourne landfill