Companies shouldn't be allowed to use biodiversity offsets just because it's their cheapest option, and should disclose their carbon abatement strategies in EPBC referrals, Professor Graeme Samuel said today.
A Queensland environment group is relying on the EPBC Act's reconsideration provisions to ask for a re-evaluation of 19 major projects, because of their climate impacts.
A $107 million NSW fund to fast-track the supply of biodiversity credits will be operating by September, and responsibility for biodiversity stewardship agreements will shift to a new taskforce.
A court has fined the NSW Forestry Corporation $135,600 and ordered it to pay $150,000 in EPA costs for felling trees in koala habitat and other logging exclusion zones.
A Federal Court judge has criticised the fishing industry's poor record on EPBC Act compliance and has expressed doubt about the adequacy of a penalty proposed by the federal Environment Minister.
Opponents of a subdivision application have had a tribunal win, after arguing proposed biodiversity offsets were on an "undevelopable" part of a site that was at risk of sea-level rise.
Victoria's Auditor-General has delivered a scathing assessment of efforts to manage clearing on private land in the state, identifying fundamental data gaps and extensive compliance failures.
A court has rejected a Bob Brown Foundation application for an interim order halting work on a mine tailings storage facility, after the company proposing it gave additional undertakings.