Volkswagen has failed to convince the Full Federal Court that a $125 million penalty imposed on it for cheating on air pollution tests was manifestly excessive.
The fact that Glencore uses land to offset the impacts of a coal mine, doesn't mean the local council can rate it as mining land, an Appeal Court has ruled.
Sydney Water breached an environmental obligation and a duty of care by allowing treated effluent to erode downstream creek banks, the Chief Justice of NSW's environment court has held.
In Australia's first cross-border pollution class-action, the Federal Court has ordered an oil company to pay damages to thousands of Indonesian seaweed farmers.
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.