A draft South Australian bill would dramatically increase littering fines, expand the state's civil penalties regime, and define the responsibilities of the EPA and councils.
The Government has succeeded in reducing Australia's renewables target and exempting emissions-intensive industrial activities from it, after making undertakings that could lead to new noise controls on various industries.
A Western Australian tribunal has ruled that the noise impacts of a proposed sand quarry would not be sufficient to ban it from operating on Saturdays.
A company already in the EPA's sights for installing a waste-to-energy boiler without a licence, last week updated a regulator-convened community meeting on its efforts to fix noise problems.