The director of a company facing multiple waste charges has failed to convince a court that evidence extracted by the EPA from his password-protected mobile phone was inadmissible.
After a falling-out between two businesses that transported NSW waste to Queensland for levy-free landfill disposal, a court has awarded one of them $611,734 in damages.
A court has fined Nyrstar $35,000 over an acid spill at its Port Pirie smelter, while SA Health says lead levels in children living near the smelter are increasing.
A small community group can't take legal action against a planning decision to extend the deadline for building a wind farm, Victoria's Supreme Court has ruled.
Two Whitehaven subsidiaries have been fined a total of $372,500 for clearing three access tracks in the wrong locations, failing to prepare a rehabilitation plan, and drilling boreholes in the wrong places.
In a preliminary skirmish, an appeal court has ruled in favour of the former executives of a company that was fined $4.5 million for wilfully causing serious environmental harm.
A court has ordered a major food company that polluted a waterway to make a $100,000 payment to a conservation group that is its partner in a bioenergy project.