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.
Victoria today gazetted classification criteria that specify when soils containing extremely low levels of PFAS will be considered suitable for use as fill.
A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.
In a judgment that might yet be tested in the High Court, an appeal court has upheld a decision that found liquidators were liable for the costs of cleaning up a major waste dump.
Labor has sided with the Coalition to vote down a Greens-backed attempt by One Nation to retrospectively make Woodside liable for remediation of an ageing oil processing vessel that it sold in 2015.
In a preliminary skirmish, an appeal court has ruled in favour of the former executives of a company that was fined $4.5 million for wilfully causing serious environmental harm.
The NSW government is planning to strengthen assessment requirements for CCS projects, waste-to-energy projects, groundwater treatment activities, and large storage batteries.
A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.
EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.