A NSW Bill allowing biodiversity and carbon credits to be generated from actions in national parks is deeply flawed, according to a leading biodiversity scientist.
NSW Liberal and Labor politicians have agreed in a new committee report that pollution limits on the state's coal power plants are outdated, and they want a Greens Clean Air Bill debated.
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.
A new NSW bill enables the state government to monetise biodiversity and carbon sequestration actions in national parks that go beyond business-as-usual.
A new NSW law puts more pressure on companies to cut packaging waste, tightens controls on plastic, and enables financial assurance requirements to be imposed on brand owners.
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.
Mining companies, environmentalists, planners and local governments have all told a NSW parliamentary inquiry that the state's biodiversity offsets scheme is seriously flawed.
The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected arguments by a coal company that it was unlawfully refused consent for a mine because of invalid concerns about scope 3 emissions.
A NSW parliamentary inquiry has recommended changes to ensure State Environmental Planning Policies aren't used to prevent legitimate court challenges.