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Poppy Johnston

Greens to push Labor on new carbon rules

Mehreen Faruqi said Labor likely needed the Greens' backing to pass rules through the Senate. (Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The Greens could force the federal government to toughen its safeguard mechanism scheme, to prevent major polluters using accounting tricks or offsets to dodge deep emissions cuts.

The Labor government unveiled draft revisions to the scheme that effectively requires Australia's largest greenhouse gas emitters to keep their net emissions below a baseline emissions limit.

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