Environment Minister Sussan Ley has introduced a Bill that will standardise regulatory systems for managing the health and environmental risks of industrial chemicals.
The federal government will this year introduce a bill to establish a nationally consistent approach for managing the environmental risks of industrial chemicals.
The Morrison government has finalised wide-ranging rules that reveal exactly how its new chemicals law will operate, including its ban on animal testing of cosmetics.
The amount of hazardous waste generated in Australia has increased by more than a third in just three years, and there aren't adequate safety checks on biosolids applied to land, warns a new federal report.