Browsing: Chemicals

Procedures for assessing new industrial chemicals are poised to change significantly next year, after the Senate yesterday passed bills that replace the NICNAS scheme with a new regime.

• Company ignores order to pay EPA $4.5m
  
• Labor and Coalition back regulator's 'robust' glyphosate review
  
• Approval sought for construction waste recycling facility

Australia should mandate more stringent carbon controls on companies and vehicles, and strengthen policies on biodiversity, waste and chemicals, according to the OECD.

• ACCC seeks views on waste company's divestment offer
  
• Canberra and NSW aim to revise EPBC bilateral agreement
  
• State agency plans hazardous materials audit

• Chemical scheme changes won't start till mid-2020
  
• Defence spends $100m on PFAS remediation
  
• Cleanaway approved to export more hazardous waste

• Resources ministers to boost environmental data-sharing
  
• Plans to give minister more discretion in agvet chemical decisions
  
• Agribusiness to install more than 5MW of solar

The federal government has granted Orica approval to export more than 2,000 tonnes of hazardous waste for destruction.

• Coal association rebadges
  
• Greens quiz WA government on carbon credits
  
• ACCC to allow agvet stewardship scheme levy increase

Companies with major hazard facilities threatened legal action against a move by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade to require them to to use fluorine-free fire foams, which prompted the brigade to adopt a different strategy.

• Consent sought for $33m waste-to-energy plant
  
• Labor to seek Senate review of pesticides regulator
  
• New report shows large fluctuations in waste recovery