The owners of the Hazelwood brown coal mine have been fined $1.94 million for a major 2014 fire that lasted 45 days and blanketed the Latrobe Valley in smoke and ash.
A chemical company must pay a $60,000 penalty and significant EPA costs after its attempt at odour neutralisation backfired and led to the release of a toxic gas.
The operator of Victoria's Hazelwood brown coal mine has been convicted under environmental and health and safety legislation over a mine fire lasting 45 days.
GrainCorp has told a court it spent more than $2 million on investigations and new systems after discovering it had misinterpreted a consultant's advice and breached its environmental licence for two years.
Failing to prevent serious odour problems when building a WestConnex interchange on an old Dial-A-Dump landfill site has cost a CIMIC subsidiary almost half a million dollars.
The air pollution condition applying to Yara Pilbara's ammonium nitrate plant on the Burrup Peninsula should be updated and tightened, Western Australia's EPA has recommended.
The Western Australian government is planning an industry-funded buyout of homes in Port Hedland's West End, to resolve longstanding complaints about dust from port operations.
In a decision that turned on the affordability and viability of pollution controls, a company has failed to convince a tribunal it should continue to discharge ozone-depleting methyl bromide.