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The NSW EPA has withdrawn an allegation of land pollution by Du Pont, after a court accepted company arguments that any off-site escape of herbicide from its Sydney factory might have occurred outside the 'charge period'.

A NSW court has rejected arguments by Du Pont that it can't be found guilty of land pollution because any chemical dust from its factory fell to the ground from the air, and was not directly applied to poisoned neighbouring gardens.

• DuPont in court over herbicide spill
  
• EPA Victoria details who can be liable for clean-up costs
  
• Newsprint recovery rates remain high

• SA EPA order inelegant, but not invalid
  
• NSW EPA approves Mitsubishi site contamination plan
  
• WA issues new policy on surplus mine water
  
• Council fined $31,500 over sewage pit that 'ran itself'

• Vapour release triggers evacuations, costs Nuplex $173,000
  
• Veolia gains limited leeway on legacy chromium contamination
  
• NSW environment court orders Ausgrid to pay $40,000

A company and director that spent more than $10 million complying with clean-up orders after a chemical fire blame poor firefighting for the contamination, but a related Supreme Court ruling on pollution insurance has gone against them.

The NSW EPA has completed the first successful prosecution of a person for conducting a site audit without accreditation.

• Fuel leak fine for citrus processer, but Shell pays for clean-up
  
• NSW EPA prosecutes DuPont
  
• The EPBC 'streamlining' that's still stuck in the pipeline
  
• $12.4 million on offer to help develop carbon credit project rules
  
• Council landfills carbon price national forum

A South Australian court has rejected a company's argument that it was not guilty of causing serious environmental harm because Shell owned the infrastructure on its site from which diesel fuel escaped.

• Three companies fined over sugar mill pollution
  
• EPA SA launches site contamination index
  
• Federal Government drafts new assessment bilateral agreement with WA