In an unusual move, the NSW EPA has appealed the sentence imposed by a judge in a waste test case, two years after it successfully appealed her initial ruling in the matter.
After giving an enforceable undertaking for a water breach that Whitehaven Coal said reflected typical behaviour in the mining industry, a court has now fined the company $200,000.
Weston Aluminium has failed to convince a court that it shouldn't pay waste levy contributions because it is merely processing waste, not disposing of it.
The director of a company facing multiple waste charges has failed to convince a court that evidence extracted by the EPA from his password-protected mobile phone was inadmissible.
Two Whitehaven subsidiaries have been fined a total of $372,500 for clearing three access tracks in the wrong locations, failing to prepare a rehabilitation plan, and drilling boreholes in the wrong places.
For the second time in two weeks, a NSW court has ruled that an EPA summons is flawed due to duplicity, and the agency is considering whether to launch an appeal.
A judge has for the second and final time rejected a regulator's attempt to prosecute an ASX-listed company for poor sediment control on an industrial estate construction site.
Sydney Water breached an environmental obligation and a duty of care by allowing treated effluent to erode downstream creek banks, the Chief Justice of NSW's environment court has held.