Victoria's Auditor-General today delivered a scathing assessment of the state government's administration of arrangements that exempt housing estate developers from the EPBC Act.
The Federal Court today rejected the ACCC's arguments that Kimberly-Clark had misleadingly claimed its wet wipes were safe for sewerage systems, and criticised the Commission's tactics in the appeal hearing.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison today urged all states and territories to negotiate EPBC approval bilateral agreements with Canberra, and praised a WA bill that will make the task easier.
The committee that advises Environment Minister Sussan Ley on threatened species has recommended stricter controls on the use of biodiversity offsets, and called for major changes to the EPBC Act.
In an EPBC decision that demonstrates impacts on bushfire-affected threatened species will receive close scrutiny, a proposed Epuron wind farm has been declared "clearly unacceptable".
Including a greenhouse gas trigger in the EPBC Act would be unwarranted and inappropriate, according to the department administered by Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor.
In a decision that has broad ramifications, the Federal Court has found logging by VicForests did not satisfy the precautionary principle, and has significantly affected threatened species.