A PwC-owned liquidation business that was found to be liable for substantial environmental clean-up costs has asked the High Court to hear its appeal, arguing that the case has national ramifications.
In an unusual move, the NSW EPA has appealed the sentence imposed by a judge in a waste test case, two years after it successfully appealed her initial ruling in the matter.
In a case that turned on the definition of industrial waste, a recycling company has lost a Supreme Court bid to have an EPA clean-up notice declared invalid.
A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.
After giving an enforceable undertaking for a water breach that Whitehaven Coal said reflected typical behaviour in the mining industry, a court has now fined the company $200,000.
Weston Aluminium has failed to convince a court that it shouldn't pay waste levy contributions because it is merely processing waste, not disposing of it.
In a judgment that might yet be tested in the High Court, an appeal court has upheld a decision that found liquidators were liable for the costs of cleaning up a major waste dump.