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• Victoria proposes $40-per-tonne penalty for energy efficiency target scheme
  
• NSW water law now in force
  
• Perth joins 'solar cities' ranks

• Don't risk nation's competitive advantage, warns Coalition
  
• Climate Ready program seeks first round grant applications
  
• How Queensland's climate impact statement process works
  
• Tasmania to hold fuel summit
  
• IPCC issues climate change and water report

• 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

A NSW chemical firm will pay a total of $192,000 in penalties, clean-up costs and legal costs after sulphuric acid leaked from a tank not properly designed to safely store the substance.

The need for business leadership on sustainability is now 'greater than ever', Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night told a business forum in Canberra.



Leadership on energy efficiency is particularly crucial, the Prime Minister said.

• Coalition and Greens slam solar rebate means-test
  
• Milne tables national feed-in tariff bill
  
• Melbourne hazardous waste landfill closes ahead of schedule
  
• Rudd government quizzed on coal and energy
  
• Bligh praises Queensland businesses for water conservation efforts
  
• Garrett seeks comment on marine debris threats
  
• NSW Parliament issues carbon capture and storage paper

It's Labor's first commitment period – with the Rudd government last night setting out where its climate change and environment cash will be spent over 2008-2012. New Budget climate measures will get $341.6 million in 2008-09 and a total of $2.3 billion over 2007-08 to 2011-12.



Meanwhile, Treasurer Wayne Swan says the review of the tax system – due to report by the end of 2009 – will 'look at the role to be played by environmental taxes'.

CE Daily looks at where the money will go and guides you through the maze of Budget papers.