* Landfill gas electricity generators gain five extra years to earn credits
* Government to grant new carbon storage assessment permits
* EnergyAustralia seeks contractor for 350MW Latrobe Valley battery Read more...
Environment Minister Sussan Ley has backed calls for a new global agreement to tackle marine plastic, as new research warns that the plastic produced each year causes environmental harm worth trillions of dollars. Read more...
After a falling-out between two businesses that transported NSW waste to Queensland for levy-free landfill disposal, a court has awarded one of them $611,734 in damages. Read more...
* NSW hands out solar panel recycling grants
* 'Not hard to get to 100% renewables', top energy expert tells House inquiry
* Building Codes Board proposes tougher energy efficiency requirements Read more...
Bingo Industries has suffered a new blow in a long-running legal battle that canvasses some crucial issues on responsibility for waste-derived contaminated materials. Read more...
The waste industry has what the carbon sector doesn't – a target widely viewed as ambitious, as well as a substantial price to spur waste abatement – and that has prompted a huge increase in investor interest, says MRA Consulting Group. Read more...
* Federal and NSW governments award recycling grants totalling $24 million
* Whitehaven to face new coal phase-down shareholder resolution
* New industry group aims to boost market for methane-cutting seaweeds Read more...
Visy has applied for works approval for a replacement glass recycling plant at a site in Melbourne that will produce four times as much cullet as the existing facility. Read more...
A business linked to two failed e-waste companies has been awarded a $469,950 federal grant, and claims to have won a $1 million NSW EPA grant. Read more...
