Labor members of a Senate inquiry into mine rehabilitation today suggested that EPBC approvals for mines should include conditions on rehabilitation and "care and maintenance" requirements.
NSW Labor would make changes on single-use plastics, environmental licensing, waste-to-energy, biodiversity and air quality, party leader Michael Daley has pledged.
Labor has sought to reassure industry that a new federal environmental agency and a new law that requires consideration of climate change would be better for both business and the environment.
A taskforce advising Resources Minister Matt Canavan has recommended that the government be more flexible when imposing biodiversity offset requirements on companies.
The federal environment department is seeking views on a farmer's claim that an EPBC referral for a wind farm transmission line that would pass through his land was 'false and misleading'.
The Queensland Court of Appeal has rejected arguments by Boral Resources (Qld) Pty Ltd that Gold Coast City Council wrongly refused it a permit to develop a new quarry.