Browsing: Chemicals

The NSW government will amend state regulations with the aim of improving the quality of National Pollutant Inventory data it receives from hundreds of companies.

• Biodiversity Bill needs tougher integrity provisions, lawyer cautions
  
• Minamata Convention on mercury now in force nation-wide
  
• Origin Energy's science-based target to remain

• Investigate local PFAS disposal option, says SA parliamentary committee
  
• New fossil fuel supplies "essential": Santos responds to climate resolutions
  
• EPBC approvals granted to clear huge swathes of koala habitat: New research

A federally-funded study by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation has found high PFAS levels in a significant proportion of food-contact fibre packaging.

Victoria today gazetted classification criteria that specify when soils containing extremely low levels of PFAS will be considered suitable for use as fill.

• ERF method likely to be revoked
  
• Developer ordered to pay $0.5 million for failing to investigate contamination
  
• NSW implements Minimata Convention controls on mercury

• Cleanaway faces multiple charges over licence breaches
  
• Sims to produce hydrogen from recycling residues
  
• Federal government gazettes Minimata mercury treaty rules

The Morrison government should drop plans to give the lighting industry a temporary exemption when it ratifies a global convention on mercury, according to Parliament's treaties committee.

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.

The federal government has granted Cleanaway a permit to import up to 100 tonnes of PFAS-contaminated waste for destruction.