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.
Defence might be using firefighting foams that are entirely free of fluorine compounds as soon as next year, a federal Parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Millions of tonnes of hazardous waste are stockpiled around Australia and a new federal report questions whether the entities responsible will always have to pay the cost of clean-up.
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.
Six years after committing to a global treaty to phase-out mercury, the federal government is yet to launch a parliamentary inquiry to enable ratification.
Prompted by the discovery of high-risk chemical waste stockpiles, the Victorian government will today introduce a dangerous goods bill with a new maximum penalty of $6.4 million.
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.