Tellus Holdings, which is seeking approval to geosequester hazardous waste in the Northern Territory, says it would be open to receiving the huge stockpile of HCB waste held by Orica in Sydney.
Caltex Australia has pleaded guilty in the NSW Land and Environment Court to a Tier 1 offence carrying a $2 million maximum penalty in relation to a fuel spill at its Banksmeadow terminal in Sydney.
The NSW Government is set to modernise a little-used 30-year-old hazardous chemicals law so it can rapidly adopt national recommendations and encourage the use of safer alternatives.
Environment ministers have agreed to strengthen controls on particle pollution, speed up work on a national clean air agreement and establish a national standard for the environmental management of chemicals.
The NSW Government has secured passage of a bill that tightens controls on pesticide use, and will follow up with an overhaul of another chemicals law.