Browsing: Environmental management

• Victoria to complete licence overhaul, expands online information on contaminated sites
  
• Enterprise bargaining shouldn't exclude green matters: Bandt
  
• WA landowner fails in wind turbine challenge

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

The company behind the 2009 Montara oil spill has lodged an EPBC Act referral over plans for more drilling, describing itself as having a 'satisfactory' environmental record and noting that is never been prosecuted under any Australian environmental law.

• Council consent for new Coles complex conditional on 50% renewables
  
• Climate advocacy fund withdraws shareholder resolution
  
• Victorian levy funds must be spent on waste programs, Ai Group says
  
• IEA reveals Australia's dismal public spending on energy efficiency

• ACCC approves levy on paint sales to fund recycling trial
  
• NSW council releases sea-level rise policy
  
• Gunns asks Tasmanian EPA to vary pulp mill permit
  
• Time to rebuild public transport infrastructure, ACF says
  
• ESAA urges Garnaut to rethink power sector proposals

• Charge more for urban water during droughts, National Water Commission says
  
• Conservation Council challenges WA power station licence
  
• PM quizzes BCA on carbon stance

• ABB Group hits suppliers with sustainability code of conduct
  
• Greenhouse data shows modest emissions increase in 2010
  
• Set a carbon price floor, Clean Energy Council tells climate committee
  
• ACT calls for environment grant applications

Despite growing acceptance in the private sector of the value that sustainability programs can deliver, more than 30% of businesses lack a strategy for sustainable growth, according to new research.

• Canberra to impose anti-dumping duties on U.S. biodiesel
  
• Qantas, Woolworths distance themselves from carbon letter to PM
  
• Burke urged to assess five WA projects on greenhouse gas grounds
  
• 'Technical' EPBC Act breaches lead to penalty for coal seam gas company

• Trust our 'decades of experience' on fraccing: Shell
  
• Water industry ready for 'climate shocks': Water Commission
  
• UNFCCC finalises Transitional Committee
  
• Tourism more valuable to Kimberley than mining: ACF