The Queensland government has updated its environmental laws by including provisions that provide early certainty on clearly unacceptable projects, greater public consultation, and increased accountability for directors and officers of companies that cause environmental harm.
Western Australia's Environment Minister Reece Whitby has imposed tougher greenhouse gas conditions on Chevron's Gorgon LNG project, including a requirement that it reach net-zero by 2050.
Western Australia's EPA has revealed that Chevron Gorgon's sequestration performance has slumped, and has recommended stronger carbon conditions on the LNG project.
A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.
Western Australian businesses won't have their greenhouse gas emissions controlled through the state's environmental licensing regime, according to the state's Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.
In a landmark move, the NSW EPA will become the first state environmental regulator to use its licensing regime to cut industry greenhouse gas emissions.
Inpex, TotalEnergies and Woodside will spend $165 million investigating a carbon storage site offshore from the Northern Territory, while Chevron and Santos will jointly assess CCS opportunities elsewhere.
In a decision that will have important ramifications for BlueScope, South32 today abandoned its second attempt to expand its Dendrobium metallurgical coal mine.