The Victorian Supreme Court has made an important ruling on the circumstances in which companies need to obtain planning permits for works they undertake in response to EPA clean-up notices.
In the final twist to a disastrous attempt by an environment department to take legal action over contamination at a mothballed mine, a court has ruled its application for a contempt order was vexatious.
Transurban must fight legal battles on two fronts over PFAS contamination on Victoria's West Gate Tunnel project, after failing to secure a Supreme Court injunction that would have put on ice arbitration of its dispute with contractor CPB.
A council will incur clean-up, performance improvement and penalty costs totalling more than $1 million after failing to report a caustic soda spill from a sewage treatment plant.
A court has rejected an environmental regulator's application for a contempt order against a mining company and its director over the alleged failure to comply with clean-up orders.
A Fire Service has failed to convince a court that an insurer of a site that burnt down is required by legislation to pay it $660,000 to cover the costs of cleaning up oily fire-water.