Highlights include court rulings and a Carbon Market Institute pre-election policy briefing. Jobs include a senior NGER role with the Clean Energy Regulator, and posts with OceanaGold and Bupa. Read more...

Western Australia's Supreme Court has ruled soil and sand sent to landfill is exempt from the state's waste levy if it contains asbestos that can't reasonably be separated out. Read more...

New Northern Territory EPA guidance says it expects approval applications to include greenhouse gas data for scopes 1,2 and 3, and that it is prepared to recommend carbon offset conditions. Read more...

A waste gasification company is advancing its second project, with an eye to attracting councils disillusioned by a bulk-buy process, while another waste-to-energy company advised by former trade minister Andrew Robb has run into financial difficulties. Read more...

A total of 37 companies in the ASX50 disclosed climate change scenario analysis findings in FY21, the Australian Accounting Standards Board heard today. Read more...

NSW needs a new circular economy agency and should introduce a general environmental duty to ensure re-used materials are safe and fit for purpose, according to the waste and recycling industry association. Read more...

* Governments urged to demand low-carbon materials
* Review could lead to embodied carbon disclosure requirements
* Transport agency embedding sustainability measures in contracts
* UK net-zero commitment creates market for Australian green concrete Read more...

Ahead of Woodside's AGM on Thursday, an activist shareholder group has posed a series of questions to its auditor EY, based on a new international framework for assessing climate disclosures. Read more...

The federal industry department has confirmed there is now no domestic impediment preventing the government from counting voluntary use of ACCUs by businesses towards meeting its own international emissions pledges, rather than treating it as additional. Read more...

The Clean Energy Regulator is trialling a carbon intensity certification scheme with 17 hydrogen projects that are under development by companies including Fortescue, Santos, BP, Engie, Incitec Pivot and Jemena. Read more...

A decision by Cleanaway to temporarily prevent rivals using its Sydney waste transfer stations raises competition concerns, according to MRA Consulting Group's Mike Ritchie. Read more...

* WA eases reporting requirements for most licensees
* Boral wins $30m grant to capture up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 annually
* International CCUS expert to head oil and gas industry association Read more...

A landfill gas industry executive agrees with professor Andrew Macintosh that the decision to allow large landfills to earn credits for five more years raises serious integrity concerns. Read more...

Toxic emissions from some coal-fired power stations have risen even though they are generating less electricity than in the past, according to an analysis of National Pollutant Inventory data. Read more...

The NSW EPA today lost its appeal against a court ruling that it issued an invalid notice seeking information on the application of treated mixed waste to land. Read more...