A court has rejected an environmental regulator's application for a contempt order against a mining company and its director over the alleged failure to comply with clean-up orders.
The Productivity Commission will examine whether states and territories are adequately considering climate change in their water planning, as part of a new inquiry.
A Yancoal and Glencore joint venture company will spend more than $1.4 million after sediment-laden water escaped from its Singleton open-cut coal mine into a creek.
AGL says the coal ash dam at its Bayswater power plant will be full within two years, unless it is upgraded, and the company also plans to reduce saline discharges from the site.
Businesses and residents in Sydney would have higher water bills at times when dam levels are low, under new proposals from the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal.
A company that supplied chemicals company Jalco Australia with a wastewater storage tank alerted it three times to possible deficiencies, but Jalco failed to act and the tank collapsed.
Latrobe Valley coal mines should speedily be filled with water once production ceases, and that might mean using treated wastewater or seawater, according to EnergyAustralia.
Concerted global action on climate change is necessary to prevent continued deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef, acknowledges a federal government report released today.
The NSW environment department has for the fourth time been convicted of pollution offences over its operation of a sewage treatment plant in the Snowy Mountains.