A BHP Billiton subsidiary activated its Pollution Incident Response Management Plan within 30 minutes of a blast going wrong, and within three hours had notified regulators and medical centres.
A NSW EPA compliance audit of Visy Paper's Smithfield pulp and paper mill has found the site fully compliant with wastewater and stormwater licence conditions, with one minor exception.
The NSW EPA established a local advisory panel, funded odour modelling, issued prevention notices and involved residents in odour sniff-tests as part of a four-year campaign to deal with hundreds of complaints about a regional industrial estate.
Four councils have lost a court battle to challenge the possible imposition of a charge of at least $500,000 after odour problems shut down a commingled municipal waste processing plant.
The NSW EPA will require coal mines to identify best-practice measures to cut diesel emissions, and is considering imposing similar measures on other sectors.