Browsing: Court cases, fines

• SA EPA civil penalties to rise
  
• EPA Victoria appoints new auditors
  
• Nuplex ordered to investigate toxic chemical emissions
  
• NT EDO beats closure deadline

The NSW Land and Environment Court has levied a $63,000 fine plus costs on the director of an earthmoving and haulage company who arranged for more than 3,500 tonnes of asbestos-contaminated waste to be removed from a Shell refinery site and illegally dumped at a rural residential property.

• Government and coal-carrier owner in court over $50m Reef clean-up
  
• EPA issues $30,000 penalty to bulk fuel storage company
  
• NSW to impose new fuel controls on cruise ships

ANZ Bank has issued its first green bond, and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation says other financial institutions, companies and state and local governments will rapidly follow suit.

A company and its two directors must pay penalties and costs of almost $200,000 after intentionally breaching a licence condition, but their illegal actions generated millions of dollars in extra revenue.

• Warkworth coal mine expansion back with decision-maker
  
• EPA issues updated advice on remedial notices
  
• NT consults on water strategy

After last year massively boosting environmental on-the-spot fines, NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes will take similar action in his new portfolio for breaches of development consents.

A Queensland farmer fined $118,000 for land clearing, has been refused special leave to argue before the High Court that the State's vegetation protection law was unjust.

• Alcoa to close coal-fired power station
  
• Court fines builder for waste dumping
  
• Forestry regulators join forces

Instead of sending confiscated illicit drugs to a scheduled waste facility, NSW Police illegally disposed of them at crematoria.