Browsing: <a href="/tag/qld">Queensland</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/air-pollution-odour">Air pollution, odour</a>

• Minister rejects appeal against BHP licence amendment
  
• Queensland to develop Reef island decarbonisation plans
  
• Coca Cola Amatil to boost use of recycled plastic

• Queensland to overhaul environmental offsets framework
  
• Proposal for $768m, 720MW solar farm opens for comment
  
• Record-breaking dust levels, reports NSW agency

• 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

Queensland's environment department has released new details of events that led to fines totalling $60,000 for Caltex and clean-up costs of more than $750,000.

Environment ministers have backed air quality measures that include tougher controls on particle pollution, but Australians will no longer have a consistent level of protection from the serious health effects of fine particles.

• Review imminent of Queensland's energy laws
  
• SA Government introduces stormwater bill
  
• EPA instructs Boral/CSR and Rheem to improve stack controls

• Sydney Water, BHP Billiton enter guilty pleas
  
• WA poised to drop approvals process for 'low-impact' activities
  
• Queensland regulator issues update on gas contamination

• Queensland finalises standard conditions for more industries
  
• BCA backs Queensland EPBC deal; 'Too broad', say NGOs
  
• Big step forward for BHPB efforts to remediate steelworks
  
• Victoria revises vehicle emission regulations

• Queensland rules out plastic bag charges or bans
  
• NSW EPA approves council plan to manage contamination
  
• NSW issues new pollution orders to Nestlé
  
• Canola mill instructed to investigate odours
  
• Fuel spill at Caltex terminal