Banks and investors risk court action and greenwashing investigations if they don't stop financing activities that harm biodiversity, a major environment group has warned.
Federal, state and territory environment ministers have agreed to work together on biodiversity markets, and will reform the regulation of e-waste and packaging.
Western Australia's Environment Minister Reece Whitby has imposed tougher greenhouse gas conditions on Chevron's Gorgon LNG project, including a requirement that it reach net-zero by 2050.
The former chief executive of waste company Bingo, Daniel Tartak, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting price-fixing in the demolition waste industry, the ACCC has announced.
Pressure from bedding supply chain companies to cut a proposed mattress stewardship levy will limit what the voluntary scheme can initially achieve, according to the industry body designing the scheme.