Browsing: Air pollution, odour

• Federal minister ordered to re-assess land clearing plan
  
• New sustainable packaging guidelines proposed
  
• ACT issues new guidance on buffer zones

• Queensland delays waste levy, lifts rate
  
• Waste industry warns of battery fire and contamination dangers
  
• WA launches new scheme for recycled C&D waste
  
• ACF calls for tougher air standards

• EPA issues prevention notice to Unilever
  
• Qantas designates climate risk 'owners' across its business
  
• Approval for underground coal gasification project

• NT water bill ends special treatment for mining and gas
  
• Andy Vesey departs AGL
  
• EPA issues prevention bill to Holcim

Governments should only collect National Pollutant Inventory data from companies every two years, according to the Australian Energy Council.

The public will misunderstand the National Pollutant Inventory if states don't regularly publish data on emissions from sources other than major industry, the Minerals Council has warned.

A new government paper asks whether the 4,000 facilities that report through the National Pollutant Inventory should bear a greater responsibility for providing accurate emissions data and pay more of the scheme's running costs.

Western Australia's Environment Minister Stephen Dawson has instructed the state's EPA to check whether Yara Pilbara's ammonium nitrate plant needs tighter controls on harmful emissions.

• WA to increase environmental fees
  
• Energy rule-maker advances on power plant closure notification
  
• EPA orders company to undertake health risk assessment
  
• SA Water seeks advice on 'net zero' goal

A new Victorian government issues paper flags an air quality summit in August and the release of a new air strategy next year.