A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.
NSW's Baird Government will review legislation on environmentally-hazardous chemicals if it is returned at the March election, according to Environment Minister Rob Stokes.
The NSW EPA has withdrawn an allegation of land pollution by Du Pont, after a court accepted company arguments that any off-site escape of herbicide from its Sydney factory might have occurred outside the 'charge period'.
The temporary shut-down of Orica's Kooragang Island plant after a hexavalent chromium discharge cost the company $90m, according to half-year results issued today, which also reveal it has provided $190m for various clean-up and environmental projects.