Waste company Bingo Industries has again failed to convince a court that people disposing of waste at its facilities are partly to blame if it is found to owe damages to a construction company over allegedly contaminated aggregate.
In a case that highlights the need to immediately report pollution incidents, the NSW EPA is prosecuting Cleanaway for taking five hours to report a spill at its Queanbeyan premises.
A company that supplied processed waste for use on farms and mine sites – before the EPA suddenly banned the practice – has had a win in its fight against a charge that it provided false or misleading information.
Two Whitehaven Coal businesses now face environmental penalties totalling up to $20 million, after failing to convince a NSW agency to accept their enforceable undertaking that included a large payment to the NSW Minerals Council.
A man who has already spent time in jail for fraudulently obtaining more than $200,000 by illegally disposing of asbestos-contaminated waste, now faces the possibility of a second jail sentence.
The NSW EPA is prosecuting the former director of a waste oil company that is under external administration, and has launched debt recovery proceedings against him.
A court has fined Sydney Water over a poorly-managed site clean-up, but has also warned the EPA that any allegations of recklessness should be made early in proceedings.
A group of bushfire survivors that has mounted a court challenge against the NSW EPA has won the right to present expert climate change evidence from a former Australian chief scientist.
NSW's Court of Appeal today ruled that summonses issued by an environmental agency were duplicitous, and warned regulators that they must follow standard procedures.