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

• Company manager faces fine and costs totalling almost $50,000, gets dressing down from judge
  
• NSW to tighten rules for underground fuel tanks
  
• Climate change means rethinking conservation, CSIRO says
  
• WA issues new licences for brickworks
  
• Pew climate centre issues 'sectoral approaches' brief

• Brokovich weighs in over emissions from Alcoa's WA refineries
  
• WA to revamp environmental approvals process
  
• EPA Victoria and developer tread lightly on Sydney project
  
• Indonesian province GHG emissions are more than half Australia's
  
• Tasmania looks for EPA board members
  
• Marks & Spencer to roll out plastic bag charge

A landmark agreement announced today between the federal and Western Australian governments for the state's resource-rich and biodiverse Kimberley region aims to steer resource companies at an early stage towards locations that best protect environment and heritage.

Shadow minister slams WA government over environment laws * ACCC sets out Trade Practices Act carbon offsets concerns * EPA Victoria to establish internal cap and trade scheme * Wong chairs first meeting of COAG climate and water group * Think tank proposes power industry levy to fund carbon capture and storage * Greenpeace targets Canon

Victoria tweaks mandatory energy and water efficiency scheme * WA orders Wyndham Port to prepare improvement plan * Federal government seeks emissions trading and climate risk experts * New climate department absorbs DFAT climate role * Upstream oil and gas greenhouse emissions up, but intensity down * Office tower owners partner with environment group * Victoria to offer second tranche geothermal permits

WA's Carpenter government is establishing a special inspection and compliance branch in the WA Department of Environment and Conservation and will complete an independent review of the department's inspection and compliance functions by February, says yesterday's government response to a damning parliamentary report on the lead contamination scandal in Esperance.

Despite chronic staff shortages triggered by the state’s resource boom, the WA Department of Environment and Conservation conducted more site inspections in 2006-07 than in the previous two years, new figures show.

A WA parliamentary inquiry into lead contamination in Esperance says that failing to identify or prevent the pollution points to a lack of compliance culture within the state's environment department.