A service station operator has been fined a total of $320,000 for its wilful and ongoing failure to comply with an EPA notice, with a large part of the fine comprising nearly a year of daily penalties for each day of non-compliance.
The Albanese Government’s election commitment of a new national EPA will be the centrepiece of the reforms of the EPBC Act, but plenty of detail remains to be negotiated with interest groups next year.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal by the former director of a liquidated waste oil company who claimed charges filed against him by the NSW EPA for failing to comply with clean-up notices were duplicitous.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has supported a regional council’s decision to block a development application due to the future risk of gas migration from a nearby landfill.
The would-be developer of a giant energy from waste facility in western Sydney has failed in its challenge to the validity of the NSW Government’s recently enacted Thermal Energy from Waste Regulation.
Technology developed by rapidly growing Australian PFAS pollution remediation specialist EPOC Enviro will be deployed from this week to clean up one of the world’s largest PFAS contaminated sites – a former 3M plant in Minnesota.
Australia's state and federal environmental protection laws fail to uphold the three core environmental community rights established by the UN Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, according to an analysis by the Environmental Defenders Office and the Wilderness Society.
Transitioning to a fully circular economy has the potential to add more than $200 billion to Australia’s economy and create 17,000 additional jobs, according to a new report from the Australian Circular Economy Hub and Planet Ark.