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Victoria's EPA is for the first time going to court alleging a company has breached the state’s new "general environmental duty".

Santos says it will appeal today's Federal Court ruling that found its approval for drilling in the Barossa gas field was invalid due to the company's failure to properly consult with Tiwi Islanders.

A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.

A Victorian tribunal has rejected a Council's attempt to shift the responsibility for investigating and managing a PFAS-contaminated site to the state's Country Fire Authority.

A vineyard operator is challenging an order to look for contamination on its land, six years after a WA parliamentary committee investigated the management of possible contamination on a neighbouring site.

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• Company fined $285,000 for contaminating school with asbestos

Bingo Industries has entered guilty pleas to criminal cartel offences relating to price fixing for demolition waste services in Sydney, the ACCC announced today.

Sydney Water has failed to convince a court that its actions leading to a sewage leak were necessary to protect human health, but the utility will be found not guilty of a related pollution charge unless the NSW EPA lodges an appeal.

A healthcare company that was storing ethanol outside of bunded areas was today fined $297,500 for water pollution, after a large fire at its Sydney site that manufactured hand sanitiser.