The NSW EPA today lost its appeal against a court ruling that it issued an invalid notice seeking information on the application of treated mixed waste to land.
SA Water's main sub-contractor will provide $500,000 to the South Australian EPA, after it sent 77,000 tonnes of waste to two sites that a court found it had no reason to believe were licensed.
In a move that will lead to scrutiny of companies including Macquarie-owned Bingo Industries, the NSW EPA has asked the ACCC to examine skip bin pricing in the state.
A court has accepted EPA arguments that emails and text messages demonstrate a company had a tendency to supply false or misleading information, and its director had a propensity to promote a culture of dishonesty and deception.
In a significant victory for the recycling industry, the NSW EPA today abandoned plans to tighten restrictions on using residues left over from construction waste.
Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them.
The former director of a waste company has been ordered to pay $460,000 in fines and legal costs for providing false information about asbestos-contaminated waste that he dumped illegally.
A court has fined a senior employee with a demolition company a total of $270,000 for knowingly supplying false or misleading information about waste deposited at two landfill.
Liquidators will need to be more cautious when dealing with companies that have environmental liabilities, following a High Court decision not to review a Victorian ruling, according to law firm Ashurst.