Technology developed by rapidly growing Australian PFAS pollution remediation specialist EPOC Enviro will be deployed from this week to clean up one of the world’s largest PFAS contaminated sites – a former 3M plant in Minnesota.
The federal environment department was concerned that a Woodside proposal to sink an ageing piece of offshore infrastructure could potentially contaminate up to 700 million tonnes of sediment near Ningaloo Reef, newly-released documents show.
Australia should introduce a wide-ranging monitoring regime for pesticide levels in soils and water, and speed agvet chemical assessment processes, says a new report for the federal government.
Removing PFAS from landfill leachate is expensive, and water utilities lack a consistent approach to accepting discharges to sewer, says a leading waste industry association.
Defence is doing 'good work' to reduce the impacts of PFAS on the town of Katherine, but it is in the council's interests to remain part of a class action against it, councillors have been advised.
Environmental regulators have provided detailed advice for water utilities on accepting trade waste and using biosolids, in a proposed update of the national PFAS management plan.
A national snapshot of hazardous waste says tighter pollutant controls could 'fundamentally change' how biosolids are managed and describes saline water from coal seam gas projects as an enormous challenge.
A new impact statement says Australia's per capita exposure to mercury is double the global average and raises serious questions about the performance of the pesticides regulator.