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A new pollution bill would allow the government to set emission standards for products to protect health and the environment, or to meet international climate change obligations.

The Western Australian EPA today presented its report on dust levels near an Alcoa refinery, five years after a parliamentary inquiry said conflict over its buffer zone should be urgently resolved.

EPA Victoria's new chief scientist Andrea Hinwood is funding work on PFAS and on air quality as part of efforts to ensure the agency's decision-making is based on sound science.

A law firm expects to launch a class action tomorrow against recycling company SKM over the fire at its Coolaroo plant in Melbourne.

• Mine rehabilitation inquiry schedules first hearing
  
• Uranium company announces EPBC approval
  
• Inpex pays for air monitoring in Darwin
  
• Tasmania to tighten controls on salmon farming

A new list of audits proposed by Victoria's Auditor-General says that waste levy revenue has grown spectacularly, but the value of grants has plunged.

Environment groups have criticised the lack of public progress and the secrecy surrounding two important reviews that were launched months ago by the Federal Government.

The NSW EPA has ordered coal-fired power generators to provide information on coal quality and maintenance and monitoring activities, as it investigates claims they manipulated National Pollutant Inventory reports.

NSW coal-fired generators have defended their particle pollution data, after claims they substantially under-reported their emissions in 2015-16.

Coal-fired generators are defending the accuracy of their particle emission reports, but the NSW EPA is yet to put them in the clear.