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WA power company Griffin Energy has put on hold a controversial plan to use native forest logging residues in a coal-fired power plant.

• Australia praised for stance on international transport emissions
  
• 'All our hopes rest on the U.S. and China', says Turnbull
  
• EPA Victoria and Global Sustainability issue new offsets guide
  
• Don't make RET a bargaining chip, implores Clean Energy Council
  
• Esperance port changes plea over lead debacle
  
• Australian scientists sound warning in new ice and climate change reports

• RET assistance timing 'good policy' says Wong, 'hostage-taking' says Hunt
  
• WA Auditor General urges overhaul of decades-old conservation law
  
• 'Geothermal sector could deliver 3,800 new jobs by 2020'
  
• Alliance of environment groups rejects CPRS

• 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

• Tasmania axes environment department
  
• Barnett delivers on feed-in tariff election promise
  
• Industry welcomes removal of legacy waste from CPRS
  
• U.S. trading bill deal benefits utilities, gives offsets equal weight (plus video)

• NZ and Australia to hold ministerial-level climate talks
  
• Pearce in discussions with Coalition on draft report
  
• NSW reports in on Sydney's water use
  
• Off-grid renewables funding on offer
  
• U.S. think-tank proposes WTO climate code

• Coal-fired power plant assessment challenge fails
  
• Banksia Award winners announced
  
• National Pollutant Inventory issues new manuals
  
• Gore urges U.S. to be 100% renewable in a decade (with video)
  
• OECD calls for policy shift on biofuels

• 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

Victoria tweaks mandatory energy and water efficiency scheme * WA orders Wyndham Port to prepare improvement plan * Federal government seeks emissions trading and climate risk experts * New climate department absorbs DFAT climate role * Upstream oil and gas greenhouse emissions up, but intensity down * Office tower owners partner with environment group * Victoria to offer second tranche geothermal permits