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Regulations that require new developments to have "no net impact" on water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments have survived a disallowance motion.

A court has rejected an environmental regulator's application for a contempt order against a mining company and its director over the alleged failure to comply with clean-up orders.

• Qenos, Fulton Hogan, share in $1.6m grant allocation
  
• New regulatory arrangements for Queensland mine closures
  
• Water availability drops by up to 21% in southern Victoria: New study

• Greens introduce bill to prevent coal underwriting
  
• Small business climate plan highlights insurance and heat stress
  
• SA MP introduces bill to protect Great Australian Bight

A parliamentary inquiry has issued its report on a bill that would impose strict water quality controls on new industrial developments, resource projects, utilities and agricultural businesses in Great Barrier Reef catchments.

Proponents will have to buy water quality offsets if their developments increase sediment or nutrient levels in Great Barrier Reef catchments, under a new Queensland bill.

A partnership between environment group WWF and the Coca-Cola Foundation has successfully road-tested measures to cut fertiliser use on sugarcane farms and has left growers better-prepared for regulatory controls.

• Climate liability concerns prompt change in director attitudes: Grattan Institute
  
• CEFC unfazed by new investment mandate
  
• CS Energy wins Queensland government power contract
  
• Melbourne Water aims for 100% beneficial use of biosolids

• NSW Upper House amends bill doubling asbestos penalties
  
• Federal Labor open to microbeads ban
  
• End-of-life mines face tougher environmental rules

• Penalty notice challenge backfires for Adani
  
• ARENA hands out $22.1m for green hydrogen research
  
• Pacific nations back climate change insurance facility