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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

This week's highlights include: * It's back. The WA government let its 2023 climate change Bill lapse - now a Greens MLC has reintroduced it. * Standardised and harder. A Queensland Bill would standardise solar farm assessments - and make assessments of wind and solar farms more difficult.

This week's highlights include: * Sustainable finance cooperation. The Australian Sustainable Finance Institute is on track to secure an important authorisation from the ACCC. * Stewardship law slammed. The federal product stewardship law is fundamentally flawed, a key recycling body has told the Productivity Commission. * First Safeguard insights. New data

This week's highlights include: * Targets review. Queensland's new Productivity Commission will review the state's legislated emissions and clean energy targets. * Insulation subsidies. Victoria's energy upgrade scheme will soon start supporting household installations of insulation. * Waste refusal. EPA Victoria has refused Veolia'

This week's highlights include: * Waste target miss. Victoria won't meet its 2030 waste diversion target without new waste to energy infrastructure, suggests a new audit report. * ACCU developments. DCCEEW has provided an update on a proposed innovative new ACCU method. * Electrification. Greater participation in aggregator programs

This week's highlights include: * NT axes 2030 target. The NT government has ditched the former Territory government's renewables target. * Greens' climate litigation Bill. A Bill proposed by the Greens in the last week of Parliament would have allowed those affected by cyclones and floods, as

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,