A couple were entitled to back-out of a contract to buy land next to a RAAF base, because the vendors didn't disclose it was in a PFAS investigation zone, South Australia's highest court has ruled.
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.
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.