Proponents of renewable energy projects need earlier guidance on what biodiversity offsets are likely to cost, the Clean Energy Council has told the NSW government.
A senior NSW judge has rejected arguments by Santos that a community action group should pay its legal costs, after the group lost a climate change test case.
NSW Liberal and Labor politicians have agreed in a new committee report that pollution limits on the state's coal power plants are outdated, and they want a Greens Clean Air Bill debated.
A new NSW bill enables the state government to monetise biodiversity and carbon sequestration actions in national parks that go beyond business-as-usual.
Chief Justice Brian Preston of NSW's Land and Environment Court today rejected arguments that the consent for the Santos Narrabri coal seam gas project was invalid on greenhouse gas grounds.
The NSW Nature Conservation Council has launched a legal challenge against a new state water-sharing plan, on the grounds it was developed without properly considering climate change.
The NSW Government now forecasts that the state's emissions will halve by 2030, instead of falling by about a third, and the recalibration is being driven by changes already underway in business, agriculture, transport and the coal industry.
NSW's planning policy on infrastructure will be amended to tighten controls on wind and solar farms near the fringes of regional cities, under a draft proposal.