Browsing: Environmental management

NSW pollution prosecutions steady * Uranium exploration company investigated * Australia and New Zealand tackle inefficient chillers * Wong to attend U.S. climate summit * NZ government says 2025 free allocation deadline not fixed in stone *



WBCSD launches 'eco-patent commons' scheme * Asia-Pacific Partnership releases 'clean steel' handbook * Victoria and Queensland issue new eco-efficiency tips

WA environment groups score limited win on coal project greenhouse emissions * Energy efficiency expert says draft incandescent plan flawed * Sydney Water expects steep rise in business water savings * Electricity regulator urged to make transmission networks focus more on demand management

Federal government proposes new guidance on estimating GHG emissions * NSW to overhaul approach to wastes of concern * EPA Victoria sets November 2009 deadline for Shell's refinery clean up plan *



National Pollutant Inventory online reporting tool set to go live * EREP obligation kicks in for Victorian business * Growth in coal seam methane prompts Queensland EPA to look at by-product water

TEC lobbies energy rule maker for demand management changes * Leaders set March deadline for MRET expansion plan * Alumina production to drive huge growth in manufacturing energy consumption * EnergyAustralia to spend $600,000 to assuage ACCC concerns over green energy claims



* Green Building Council rethinks timber certification * Federal government seeks advice on climate change and natural resource management * NSW survey confirms major opinion shifts on climate and water

Two EPBC Act challenges involving high-profile and long-running environmental campaigns have ended, with a win for one environment group and defeat for another. One of the cases marked only the second time an injunction had been granted to a public interest litigant under the Act.

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

Energy ministers approve 'stage two' energy efficiency package * Magistrate fines construction company $95,000 * Carbon risk – more than 40 ASX200 companies could suffer material losses * National Pollutant Inventory releases new guidance * NSW offers renewables funding * Sydney Water issues water conservation guidelines * SA approves $40 million foundry expansion

Vienna waltz – Labor sidesteps on Vienna declaration cuts * WA Parliament passes waste legislation and geothermal amendments * Greg Hunt to take on Wong and Garrett * ABARE says climate change could lead to 19% decline in agriculture productivity * EPA Victoria issues air protocol for mining * WA regulator proposes overhaul of water and wastewater sector * Mothballed Mobil refinery to be home to Adelaide's desal plant * Cleaner coal – union urges faster action and more cash * Co-firing with coal set to be an early beneficiary of Labor's MRET * Strong support for mandatory sustainability reporting * Greywater now main garden water source for 15% of homes

Release of a study showing abnormally high rates of lung cancer in Whyalla, has prompted the SA government to announce it will mandate high-dust-day limits for OneSteel's Whyalla steelworks, two years after it pushed through legislation giving the steelworks a licence with no dust level limits.

SUMMARY: Court orders Amcor to pay $104,000 * Sustainability Victoria reports on waste progress * Asia Pacific Partnership and APEC overlooked in landmark U.S. and EU bid to remove tariffs on environmental goods * Business group says NZ climate bill has major flaws * UN climate chief says focus now should be on format of future talks *