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This week's highlights include: * Major environment Bill. A new NSW Bill expands the remit of environment policies, extends director liability provisions, and factors environmental justice principles into sentencing. * Fast-turnaround. An urgent NSW Bill to facilitate new grid infrastructure has passed Parliament after less than a day of debate.

This week's highlights include: * 'More ambitious'. The NSW EPA has unveiled new requirements for large emitters that it says are more ambitious than Safeguard requirements. * EPA trio. The EPAs of NSW, Victoria and South Australia have released principles on how their actions will have regard to

This week's highlights include: * Algal bloom inquiry. A Senate committee will examine the causes of South Australia's toxic algal bloom, and the adequacy of response measures. * First remarks. In her first parliamentary remarks as shadow environment minister, Liberal MP Angie Bell has quoted Ken Henry and

This week's highlights include: * Mining review. The NSW government will review mining and environmental legislation to ensure it doesn't impede productive post-mining land use. * Urgent reform. Ken Henry has called for urgent reform of the EPBC Act, in a speech to the National Press Club. * '

This week's highlights include: * ACCU 'hard limit'. A CEFC-backed report proposes capping the extent to which ACCUs can be used to offset liquid fuel-related emissions in key sectors. * It's not pollution. The Wheatstone LNG project's greenhouse gas emissions are not pollution, says

This week's highlights include: * Carbon credits bulk-buy. In a first, the ACCC plans to authorise an ACCUs bulk-buy, and it could benefit Victorian environmental plantings projects. * 'No meaningful response'. Queensland's environment department has issued a PFAS-related enforcement order to Liquid Terminals Australia. * Marine heatwave

This week's highlights include: * EPA steps up. NSW's EPA will soon release draft time-bound emissions reduction expectations for the coal sector, while the state government is drafting adaptation regulations. * Another attempt. After its first attempt was deemed unacceptable, the Port of Hastings has submitted a new

This week's highlights include: * 24-year wait to fill coal mine. An EnergyAustralia Yallourn coal mine rehabilitation plan says it will take over two decades to fill the pit with water. * Climate disclosures scrutiny. Victoria's Auditor-General has a two-stage plan to examine climate disclosures by state agencies.

This week's highlights include: * New energy review. Queensland's Productivity Commission has received terms of reference for a new energy inquiry. * Battery changes. A voluntary battery stewardship scheme is set to receive ACCC approval for fee and rebate changes, but the scheme still might not last. * PFAS

This week's highlights include: * Clean energy woes. Numerous organisations have criticised a Queensland Bill that puts new hurdles in the way of clean energy project assessments. * New ACCC guidance. The ACCC is planning to release new guidance on 'emissions-related claims'. * Special case pleas. ASIC has started

This week's highlights include: * 'Relatively high risk'. The NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer has assessed the risk of interruptions to the NSW energy market over the next 12 months. * 'Shorter than a jam roll'. NSW councils in REZ areas have complained to a parliamentary

This week's highlights include: * Extinction inquiries. In an Australian first, an SA Biodiversity Bill requires an extinction inquiry if certain species become extinct. * Reopen for business. If NSW can't get its waste-to-landfill rates down, it will consider reopening some closed landfills. * Offsets apology. EnergyAustralia has issued

This week's highlights include: * Safeguard not enough. The Safeguard by itself won't lead to deployment of all the coal industry's low-cost abatement opportunities, says a new report. * Missed chance.The Productivity Commission's interim report on circularity misses some big opportunities, says a