Victoria should accredit environmental professionals and strengthen rules on biodiversity offsetting, according to a state parliamentary report released today.
A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.
A company's Remediation Action Plan for managing asbestos contamination will satisfy the requirements of OHS improvement notices, a tribunal has ruled, but EPA concerns are yet to be resolved.
Viva Energy has failed to convince a tribunal that a childcare centre should not be built 21 metres from the pipeline that transfers crude oil to its Altona refinery.
EPA Victoria has conceded to the state's Supreme Court that it treated a company part-owned by Orica unfairly in its decision-making on a contaminated site.
The Victorian government has confirmed the start date for its new legislation that focuses on stopping environmental risk-taking, instead of just targeting polluters.
After licence reviews lasting more than three years, EPA Victoria today announced it would not impose greenhouse gas limits on the state's three brown coal power stations.