A court has ordered a recycling company to pay more than $0.5 million for exceeding processing restrictions, and has rejected key evidence given by its managing director.
In a move that will lead to scrutiny of companies including Macquarie-owned Bingo Industries, the NSW EPA has asked the ACCC to examine skip bin pricing in the state.
In a significant victory for the recycling industry, the NSW EPA today abandoned plans to tighten restrictions on using residues left over from construction waste.
Proponents of renewable energy projects need earlier guidance on what biodiversity offsets are likely to cost, the Clean Energy Council has told the NSW government.
Proponents should use a range of carbon prices in cost-benefit analyses prepared for development consent applications, the NSW planning department has advised.
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.
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.
Proposed new environment legislation for NSW would allow former directors to be held accountable, increase penalties, strengthen controls on contaminated land, and boost the EPA's independence.