Browsing: <a href="/tag/environmental-management">Environmental management</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/tas">Tasmania</a>

• Tasmania drops plans to allow defamation action against activists
  
• WA sets mining fees at half envisaged rate
  
• EPA Victoria brings experts to the fore

A CE Daily round-up of important announcements on waste management made in the past few weeks.

• WA commits to risk-based regulation
  
• ACT canvasses views on separation distances
  
• Tasmania invites comment on fracking

• Hunt finalises new EPBC agreements with two states
  
• Queensland EPBC bilateral to be amended
  
• EPA MoU with Sydney Water seeks cooperation on 'emerging issues'

The Federal Court has upheld the Federal Environment Minister's right to grant an EPBC approval even if a project faces an appeal under state law.

A high-level meeting between senior state environmental bureaucrats and representatives of Australia's largest companies has discussed a range of issues that could be regulated more consistently across the nation.

• More NSW licensees to operate under pollution reduction plans
  
• Canberra and WA update EPBC bilateral
  
• EPA Victoria issues new policies on remedial notices
  
• Minister grants EPBC approval for second Tasmanian iron ore mine

The Federal Court has declared invalid the EPBC approval for an iron ore mine in north-west Tasmania, on the basis that former Environment Minister Tony Burke failed to properly consider conservation advice on the Tasmanian Devil.

Tasmania's Supreme Court has overturned a planning tribunal ruling that the EPA could not direct a business to put in place containment measures for hazardous chemicals.

Environment and water ministers today approved changes to the contaminated sites NEPM, released a draft RIS on managing chemical environmental risks and proposed a national approach to biobanking.