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• Obama – vote for an energy bill even if you question the science
  
• New emissions registry garners little interest
  
• NSW desalination plant up and running
  
• NSW offers 18 grants totalling $6.8 million
  
• WA reviews Goldfields SO₂ policy
  
• ABS releases environmental snapshot

• 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

• 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

• Pulp and paper industry warns of closures, outlines abatement options
  
• Déjà vu on waste: ministers' progress 'grossly' over-stated
  
• Climate Institute releases abatement modelling tool
  
• WA to provide water treatment for Esperance lead-affected families
  
• Australian Coal Association releases more than 40 CCS videos

• Audit Office teams with international counterparts to monitor climate programs
  
• Environment group and packaging industry clash on container deposit outcomes
  
• EPA Victoria signs covenant with Climate Group
  
• Conditions tweaked for WA mine
  
• WA EPA clears way for 40MW wood waste power plant
  
• ACCC sets out position on water market rules
  
• Report warns of increased drought risk
  
• Senator Brown speech clarification – ‘global emissions must peak by 2015’

The NSW Land and Environment Court has ordered Caltex to pay $78,000 to the Department of Environment and Climate Change for failing to control odours at the company’s Kurnell refinery during the 2006 Christmas holidays.



Meanwhile, the WA environment department has issued a $25,000 penalty to gold miner Barrick (Kanowna) Ltd following a tailings spill.

• Ferguson tables CCS bills: 'liability lies where it falls'
  
• Marine oil spills bill goes before Parliament
  
• WA review native vegetation laws
  
• EU emissions fall slightly
  
• Shell urges CCS action, ex-BP chief says dismantle fossil fuel subsidies

• Garrett canvasses views on Anvil Hill coal mine decision
  
• Water diversions under EPBC Act scrutiny, says Wong
  
• Senate considers carbon sink forest tax concession
  
• Queensland proposes new housing standards
  
• Odour complaints lead to $25,000 fine
  
• NZ ministry issues summary of NZ trading bill changes
  
• Department of Climate Change offers graduate intake

• 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