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.
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.
A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.
A tribunal has ordered waste company Bingo to pay a council's costs in a dispute over a planning permit, saying its conduct supports the making of a costs order.
South32 says uncertainty over the approval of a key metallurgical coal mine expansion is behind a $997 million write-down of its coal business, and the company has laid out its reasons for seeking a court order that consent was invalidly refused.
Viva Energy has failed to convince a tribunal that a childcare centre should not be built 21 metres from the pipeline that transfers crude oil to its Altona refinery.