A Yancoal and Glencore joint venture company will spend more than $1.4 million after sediment-laden water escaped from its Singleton open-cut coal mine into a creek.
A company that supplied chemicals company Jalco Australia with a wastewater storage tank alerted it three times to possible deficiencies, but Jalco failed to act and the tank collapsed.
The NSW environment department has for the fourth time been convicted of pollution offences over its operation of a sewage treatment plant in the Snowy Mountains.
In a move likely to be widely welcomed by water utilities, the ACCC will appeal a Federal Court decision that cleared Kimberly-Clark of misleadingly claiming wet wipes were flushable.
Sydney Water has incurred penalties and costs of more than $369,500 after polluting Botany Bay, and must publicise its offences via Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Defence is doing 'good work' to reduce the impacts of PFAS on the town of Katherine, but it is in the council's interests to remain part of a class action against it, councillors have been advised.
Wet wipes contribute to blockages in Australia's sewerage systems, but that doesn't mean Kimberly-Clark's claims they are flushable are misleading, the Federal Court held today.
The company responsible for one of Australia's worst oil spills yesterday failed to convince the Federal Court that a seaweed farmer should not be allowed to say his crops had been affected by oil.