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.
The former director of a waste company has been ordered to pay $460,000 in fines and legal costs for providing false information about asbestos-contaminated waste that he dumped illegally.
A West Australian court has rejected arguments that the head of the environment department is obliged to consider whether to suspend or cancel or licence when a breach has occurred.
A court has fined Cleanaway $617,500 for causing pollution and being slow to report it, and has ordered it to pay EPA costs of $305,000, while its clean-up costs totalled $750,000.
A court has ordered a Whitehaven subsidiary to pay $158,750 to NSW’s Environmental Trust after it polluted an ephemeral creek near its open-cut coal mine.
A court has fined a senior employee with a demolition company a total of $270,000 for knowingly supplying false or misleading information about waste deposited at two landfill.
Liquidators will need to be more cautious when dealing with companies that have environmental liabilities, following a High Court decision not to review a Victorian ruling, according to law firm Ashurst.
Western Australia's Supreme Court has rejected arguments by conservationists that the EPA should have comprehensively assessed Woodside's plans to process Scarborough field gas at its Pluto LNG plant.