Browsing: Chemicals

The Federal Government plans to outsource assessments of new farm chemicals to make it easier to bring them into Australia.

• Queensland sets date to activate environment law changes
  
• Federal Government schedules NICNAS changes
  
• Victoria plans e-waste landfill ban

The NSW Government is set to modernise a little-used 30-year-old hazardous chemicals law so it can rapidly adopt national recommendations and encourage the use of safer alternatives.

• Port and stevedore give enforceable undertakings, pay $54,000
  
• Palaszczuk establishes Cabinet biofuels committee
  
• EPA orders chemicals company to fix long-standing problems

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.

Hydraulic fracking for oil and gas has the potential to affect drinking water but in America there are few cases where this is known to have occurred, according to a major draft study by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

The NSW Government has secured passage of a bill that tightens controls on pesticide use, and will follow up with an overhaul of another chemicals law.

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.

• Dangerous goods blitz leads to $56,000 fine
  
• Regulator offers update on Victorian efficiency scheme
  
• FutureGen $1bn stumble won't affect CCS in Australia: Institute

A new review is assessing the amount and type of hazardous waste generated in Australia, and whether the nation has the infrastructure to properly treat and manage it.