Veolia will pay $590,000 and has agreed to permanently close its Horsley Park waste management facility, after NSW EPA officers found fragments of asbestos at the site.
NSW should make it possible for materials to be declassified as wastes, and should re-examine its current asbestos rules, an independent review has recommended.
Developers can apply for priority access to in-demand biodiversity credits, according to the draft operating protocol for NSW's new $106 million biodiversity fund.
In a landmark move, the NSW EPA will become the first state environmental regulator to use its licensing regime to cut industry greenhouse gas emissions.
NSW's deputy Auditor-General, Ian Goodwin, has concluded that NSW's biodiversity offsets scheme is seriously flawed, and has warned that there is no clear, long-term strategy to improve it.
In a decision that will have important ramifications for BlueScope, South32 today abandoned its second attempt to expand its Dendrobium metallurgical coal mine.
South32 has been asked to identify additional ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its proposed Dendrobium mine extension, and it must also provide an independent assessment of the risks to BlueScope if the project doesn't go ahead.