Environmental regulators in Queensland and Victoria today announced action against Cleanaway, after the waste company earlier this month received a prevention notice from the NSW EPA.
A court has refused a claim by a farming family for almost $700,000 in damages after a gas company's environmental scientists reported finding a vulnerable species of tree on their property.
Remondis has secured agreement from Queensland's Coordinator-General for a streamlined whole-of-government assessment of its plans for a $400 million waste to energy project.
Regulations that require new developments to have "no net impact" on water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments have survived a disallowance motion.
In an EPBC decision that demonstrates impacts on bushfire-affected threatened species will receive close scrutiny, a proposed Epuron wind farm has been declared "clearly unacceptable".
A court has rejected an environmental regulator's application for a contempt order against a mining company and its director over the alleged failure to comply with clean-up orders.
A judge has criticised a quarry company's expert witnesses, and rejected its challenge to a development permit granted to one of its competitors to extract rock from a former gold mine site.