There is one main reason why 45 days of air pollution didn't lead to higher penalties for four companies that own the Hazelwood coal mine, according to Ashurst partner Rob Jamieson.
The owners of the Hazelwood brown coal mine have been fined $1.94 million for a major 2014 fire that lasted 45 days and blanketed the Latrobe Valley in smoke and ash.
Legal activist group Environmental Justice Australia says new NPI data on particle pollution should trigger an EPA investigation into Delta Electricity, and confirm its view that dust controls at Yallourn power station are faulty.
A chemical company must pay a $60,000 penalty and significant EPA costs after its attempt at odour neutralisation backfired and led to the release of a toxic gas.
The operator of Victoria's Hazelwood brown coal mine has been convicted under environmental and health and safety legislation over a mine fire lasting 45 days.
GrainCorp has told a court it spent more than $2 million on investigations and new systems after discovering it had misinterpreted a consultant's advice and breached its environmental licence for two years.
Failing to prevent serious odour problems when building a WestConnex interchange on an old Dial-A-Dump landfill site has cost a CIMIC subsidiary almost half a million dollars.