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Environmentalists say a major Woodside LNG processing project was approved without any scrutiny and, as court action continues, they have released a new analysis of its emissions.

• Telstra to boost device recycling and reuse rates
  
• Licence-holder fails to gain early access to financial assurance
  
• Business sustainability council makes membership conditional on pledges

A Supreme Court judge has ordered Veolia to treat water from a mine, after hearing evidence that its refusal to do so has caused flooding and could affect coal supply to a power station.

• Taylor to re-issue ERF landfill gas generation method
  
• Biochar producer and banana box importer in courtroom dust-up
  
• Australia Institute briefs embassies on Morrison's 'minimal progress'

The High Court today refused to hear an appeal against an approval granted to Cleanaway that allows it to expand Victoria's largest landfill.

EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.

• Cleanaway approved to dispose of PFAS-contaminated tunnel spoil
  
• EPA prosecutes waste company MRI
  
• Tribunal issues enforcement order against Bingo

• Tribunal upholds works approval refusal
  
• New chief for WA environment department
  
• Tribunal allows brick company to extract clay, despite landscape zoning
  
• Lead-acid battery recycler seeks licence change

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.

Existing laws are "more than capable" of underpinning litigation against companies and directors over biodiversity loss, according to MinterEllison partner Sarah Barker.