Browsing: Water

• Garrett moves on national waste policy
  
• SA environment court fines waste firm $460,000
  
• Former World Bank chief to head Rudd's CCS advisory council
  
• NSW launches biodiversity 'credits wanted' service
  
• More Gore – new book out in November

• 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

• Water pollution costs Boral more than $80,000
  
• If we must have a renewables scheme, give gas a cut, says APPEA
  
• Comprehensively exclude trade-exposed industries from RET scheme, BCA says
  
• NSW to remake pesticides regulation, issues biobanking manual
  
• Tread carefully on accounting for natural disturbances, Australia tells UN
  
• Defence seeks site contamination service providers

Federal agencies have made 'little progress' in adopting challenging water, energy and waste targets the federal environment department and are a long way from being sustainability leaders, says a report by the Auditor-General released yesterday.

• Fuel leak costs Caltex $127,000
  
• Coalition not making climate headway, poll finds
  
• NSW offers climate grants

Advisers are preying upon firms trying to grapple with a multiplicity of energy, water and waste schemes, the OSCAR reporting tool has so far failed to streamline procedures and the packaging covenant is under-enforced and too ambitious in scope, the Packaging Council tells the Productivity Commission.

• Government secures Senate support for stimulus package
  
• Northern Territory EPA finalises review terms
  
• Future will be constrained on two fronts, says WBCSD

• Wong appoints new climate ambassador
  
• ACT launches nation's 'most generous' feed-in tariff
  
• Aquifer recharge could provide major water security boost, commission says
  
• Deadline imminent for NSW climate program review

Water purchases could cut profit margins for some power companies; Orica wants to be 'water neutral'; BHP Billiton stands out for high quality water reporting; and data from Rio Tinto is patchy. So says a Citi Investment Research study of the water challenges facing Australia's top companies.

• Garrett flags mandatory energy efficiency disclosure for commercial buildings
  
• Mobil hit with $13 million clean-up bill and record penalty
  
• NSW launches energy efficiency schemes
  
• Funding support might be key, says cement firm
  
• Newmont signs offset deal with CO2 Group