NSW Liberal and Labor politicians have agreed in a new committee report that pollution limits on the state's coal power plants are outdated, and they want a Greens Clean Air Bill debated.
Changes to the NSW clean air regulation could deliver benefits worth $600 million, and a long-stalled licensing review will finally be completed, according to the state government's draft clean air strategy.
A chemical company must pay a $60,000 penalty and significant EPA costs after its attempt at odour neutralisation backfired and led to the release of a toxic gas.
GrainCorp has told a court it spent more than $2 million on investigations and new systems after discovering it had misinterpreted a consultant's advice and breached its environmental licence for two years.
Failing to prevent serious odour problems when building a WestConnex interchange on an old Dial-A-Dump landfill site has cost a CIMIC subsidiary almost half a million dollars.
NSW Labor would make changes on single-use plastics, environmental licensing, waste-to-energy, biodiversity and air quality, party leader Michael Daley has pledged.