The air pollution condition applying to Yara Pilbara's ammonium nitrate plant on the Burrup Peninsula should be updated and tightened, Western Australia's EPA has recommended.
Proposed tougher air pollution standards could trigger the early closure of coal-fired power plants and a more 'pragmatic' approach is required, according to the Australian Energy Council.
The Western Australian government is planning an industry-funded buyout of homes in Port Hedland's West End, to resolve longstanding complaints about dust from port operations.
In a decision that turned on the affordability and viability of pollution controls, a company has failed to convince a tribunal it should continue to discharge ozone-depleting methyl bromide.