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This week's highlights include: * Stewardship law. A landmark NSW Bill proposes penalties of up to $880,000 for breaching mandatory product stewardship requirements. * Approvals bypass law. The NT Assembly has passed a Bill that allows projects to be approved, even if they don't comply with other

This week's highlights include: * Queensland backflip. Two months after the Qld government suspended the assessment of a huge wind project, it has ordered that a planning decision be expedited. * 'Southern Cross' climate COP. In an open letter, the president of this year's climate COP

This week's highlights include: * PFAS. The latest edition of a national PFAS management plan includes new advice on investigation, remediation, and resource re-use. * Renewables priorities. DCCEEW has released a nationally-agreed list of 56 priority transmission, generation and storage projects.  * Circularity. The Productivity Commission has issued its interim report

This week's highlights include: * Nature market open for business. Minister Tanya Plibersek has gazetted instruments that make the nature repair market officially operational. * Don't hold back, says ACCC. The ACCC says businesses shouldn't hesitate to tell customers about their legitimate environmental achievements. * Waste to

This week's highlights include: * ACCC scrutiny. Several greenwashing investigations are "ongoing", according to the ACCC. * FOGO. A new NSW law will require supermarkets and some other businesses to source separate food waste for collection. * Steelworks move. The SA government has forced the Whyalla steelworks into administration,

This week's highlights include: * New bills. The NT government has introduced new bills that curtail appeal rights and provide a path for the approval of projects that don't meet legislative requirements. * Asbestos. Instead of requiring that waste containing any level of asbestos go to landfill, NSW&

This week's highlights include: * New bills. A new offshore wind Bill is before the federal parliament, a biosecurity Bill has passed in SA, a planning reform Bill is on the way in Tasmania, and consultation has started on a potential SA scrap metal law. * Net zero grants. The

This week's highlights include: * EPA steps in. The NSW EPA has issued a new guide describing its expectations for projects that will emit more than 25,000 tonnes of CO2 annually. * Renewables uncertainty. A new Queensland regulation makes third-party appeals possible against wind farm projects. * Refused. NSW'

This week's highlights include: * Renewables suspension. Using two rarely used powers, Queensland is re-assessing one wind farm, and has suspended assessments for three others. * Environmental honours. A judge, three high-profile academics, and former Liberal and Green politicians have received Australia Day honours. * New biodiversity bill. A draft SA

This week's highlights include: * NT axes greenhouse gas policy. The NT has dropped its carbon policy for large emitters, describing the Safeguard Mechanism as sufficient. * Biodiversity challenges. NSW's biodiversity credits market is still not functioning properly, says a state government tribunal. * 'If not, why not&

This week's highlights include: * Working together. The ACCC has released guidance on how companies can cooperate on sustainability without breaching competition law. * More plastic waste. The recovery rate for plastics has decreased slightly, and the amount of plastic waste has increased significantly, new data shows. * More ACCU information.

This week's highlights include: * Waste to energy. Victoria plans to raise its cap on the amount of waste that can be processed by waste to energy facilities. * Circularity. The federal government has released a national circularity framework, and a ministerial advisory group has called for a circularity law.

This week's highlights include: * APRA update. APRA has issued an update on its work with insurers on climate risk. * Don't look at trading. The panel reviewing the operation of the wholesale electricity market has been instructed not to consider carbon trading. * Santos registers ACCU projects. Santos