A planned ministerial review to harmonise environmental regulation must reduce the reporting burden on business and limit public access to confidential data, says an Australian Sustainable Business Group submission.
Xstrata's "purported lack of knowledge" that its mining and smelting activities are causing high blood lead levels in children in Queensland's Mount Isa is no longer tenable, according to a new research study published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Australia's environment ministers today agreed to release draft windfarm development guidelines – and to consult on them for a year, with the communiqué from today's EPHC meeting also flagging the release of a discussion paper on the health effects of pollution.
The NT Government's introduction of a bill doubling environmental penalties has prompted NT Shadow Treasurer John Elferink to warn it presents 'a viability problem' for Darwin Port Corporation.