Browsing: <a href="/tag/nsw">NSW</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/resource-efficiency-waste">Resource efficiency, waste</a>

• Federal Court rejects EPBC Act challenge to 'preliminary works'
  
• Queensland parliament passes recycled water bill
  
• Queensland considers complementary measures to trading
  
• NSW Greens MLC highlights beverage industry donations
  
• 'Resolve key issues before including waste sector in trading regime'
  
• Nelson's Budget reply leaves climate in the lurch, Climate Institute says

• Coalition and Greens slam solar rebate means-test
  
• Milne tables national feed-in tariff bill
  
• Melbourne hazardous waste landfill closes ahead of schedule
  
• Rudd government quizzed on coal and energy
  
• Bligh praises Queensland businesses for water conservation efforts
  
• Garrett seeks comment on marine debris threats
  
• NSW Parliament issues carbon capture and storage paper

• National Water Commission to scrutinise water use by mines
  
• Federal energy program issues detailed efficiency guide
  
• NSW issues exemptions for land-applied wastes
  
• Shipping company fined $35,000
  
• Queensland council fined $40,000
  
• National Pollutant Inventory offers training on new reporting system
  
• Queensland EPA offers sustainability grants
  
• GM crops a boon for regional economies, ABARE says

• NSW overhauls waste rules
  
• ACCC tackles company over environmental claims
  
• Greg Hunt calls for carbon offsets commission
  
• Institute of Public Affairs links with university as environmental research 'conduit'

• Turnbull warns Rudd on permit auction revenue
  
• Australia to accept PCB-contaminated waste from Ok Tedi
  
• Offset providers guide updated
  
• NSW tribunal rejects bid to fold liquid waste levy into Sydney Water charges

NSW pollution prosecutions steady * Uranium exploration company investigated * Australia and New Zealand tackle inefficient chillers * Wong to attend U.S. climate summit * NZ government says 2025 free allocation deadline not fixed in stone *



WBCSD launches 'eco-patent commons' scheme * Asia-Pacific Partnership releases 'clean steel' handbook * Victoria and Queensland issue new eco-efficiency tips

Federal government proposes new guidance on estimating GHG emissions * NSW to overhaul approach to wastes of concern * EPA Victoria sets November 2009 deadline for Shell's refinery clean up plan *



National Pollutant Inventory online reporting tool set to go live * EREP obligation kicks in for Victorian business * Growth in coal seam methane prompts Queensland EPA to look at by-product water

Court orders Abigroup to pay $20,000 to NSW department * WWF sets out 2008 agenda * OneSteel set to sub-licence waste plastic technology * Major carbon capture cost reductions on the horizon * Melbourne Water sets out drought impacts and climate risks

The NSW environment department today proposed an overhaul of the state’s main regulation on waste. The changes would alter the rules governing the use of waste as a fuel and its application to land, simplify the waste facility licensing regime and amend some criteria for non-waste environmental licensing.