A court has fined the NSW Forestry Corporation $135,600 and ordered it to pay $150,000 in EPA costs for felling trees in koala habitat and other logging exclusion zones.
A Federal Court judge has criticised the fishing industry's poor record on EPBC Act compliance and has expressed doubt about the adequacy of a penalty proposed by the federal Environment Minister.
Opponents of a subdivision application have had a tribunal win, after arguing proposed biodiversity offsets were on an "undevelopable" part of a site that was at risk of sea-level rise.
A court has ordered a recycling company to pay more than $0.5 million for exceeding processing restrictions, and has rejected key evidence given by its managing director.
Western Australia's Supreme Court has ruled soil and sand sent to landfill is exempt from the state's waste levy if it contains asbestos that can't reasonably be separated out.
The NSW EPA today lost its appeal against a court ruling that it issued an invalid notice seeking information on the application of treated mixed waste to land.
SA Water's main sub-contractor will provide $500,000 to the South Australian EPA, after it sent 77,000 tonnes of waste to two sites that a court found it had no reason to believe were licensed.
A court has accepted EPA arguments that emails and text messages demonstrate a company had a tendency to supply false or misleading information, and its director had a propensity to promote a culture of dishonesty and deception.
A court has rejected a Bob Brown Foundation application for an interim order halting work on a mine tailings storage facility, after the company proposing it gave additional undertakings.
Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them.