Queensland's environment department is planning more changes to its proposed system for classifying waste as hazardous, including new criteria for PFAS, phalates and acid sulfate soils.
Environment ministers have agreed to strengthen controls on particle pollution, speed up work on a national clean air agreement and establish a national standard for the environmental management of chemicals.
A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.