In a new paper, the federal government says it wants every end-of-life electrical and electronic device reprocessed, to recover valuable materials and reduce carbon emissions.
Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor today introduced a Bill that will establish a long-awaited licensing framework for offshore wind projects.
Labor has sided with the Coalition to vote down a Greens-backed attempt by One Nation to retrospectively make Woodside liable for remediation of an ageing oil processing vessel that it sold in 2015.
A new federal strategy that will pick 100 threatened species for special intervention has been challenged by environment groups, with WWF calling for a broader 'zero extinctions' approach.
Environmentalists have warned industry not to use native timber sourced from VicForests, as they prepare to go to the High Court over a Federal Court decision today in favour of the logging agency.
The government's own advisory body on threatened species has doubts about a government EPBC Bill, and Australia's peak organisation for environmental lawyers says it is too flawed to pass.
Instead of tightening NO2 air quality standards in two stages, environment ministers have decided to move immediately to goals that were originally proposed for 2025.
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.