A court has found a Stockland proposal for a major residential development could harm a significant wetland, and has criticised ecological evidence given on the company's behalf.
After a falling-out between two businesses that transported NSW waste to Queensland for levy-free landfill disposal, a court has awarded one of them $611,734 in damages.
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.
A man who previously failed to comply with an environmental protection order has failed to convince a court that he was wrongly refused new exploration permits.
A court has reduced a mining company's rehabilitation security by $46 million, after finding that a higher assurance amount determined using a standardised calculator was not binding.
New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.
A legal dispute between farmers hosting an ERF project and a couple seeking to mine for opals has ended with a court awarding the farmers modest compensation.
In one of the largest penalties for a waste offence ever imposed in Queensland, Ipswich Magistrates Court has fined a landfill owner $300,000 for grossly exceeding the limit on the amount of waste it was entitled to receive.
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.
A court has refused a claim by a farming family for almost $700,000 in damages after a gas company's environmental scientists reported finding a vulnerable species of tree on their property.