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A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.

• Pilbara not coping with resource sector waste, study says
  
• Battery company and Mobil seek hazardous waste export permits
  
• SITA, Visy and Alex Fraser score Victorian waste grants

• Residents' group to pay, as environment court applies new costs test
  
• PNG waste solvents to be used in cement kilns
  
• WA Environment Minister rejects call to expand conservation area

• SA court to ignore claims of EPA discrimination
  
• WA minister rejects challenge to chemical waste approval
  
• NSW EPA imposes enforceable undertaking over pesticides

• Greens Senator targets Reef dredging
  
• WA lifts approval conditions on industrial estate
  
• NICNAS takes second look at anti-algal blooms chemical

• Deadline looms for comment on RET exemption regulations
  
• Government calls for IPCC nominations
  
• WA waste funding on offer
  
• National framework proposed for 'agvet' chemicals
  
• Chemicals group urges Australian ban on widely-used plasticiser
  
• EDO WA seeks outreach solicitor

WA's Carpenter government is establishing a special inspection and compliance branch in the WA Department of Environment and Conservation and will complete an independent review of the department's inspection and compliance functions by February, says yesterday's government response to a damning parliamentary report on the lead contamination scandal in Esperance.