A Whitehaven Coal subsidiary must pay $120,000 and publish prominent ads in newspapers about its environmental breaches, after discarded emergency devices allegedly caused fires at a landfill.
The NSW government will fast-track its assessment of the Snowy 2.0 main works, as well as major projects proposed by TransGrid and Brickworks Ltd, as part of its economic response to COVID.
NSW could introduce mandatory plastics standards and stewardship arrangements, and will adopt a new target of net-zero emissions from organic waste, the state government has announced.
The NSW government today announced it would provide funding totalling $24 million to support the introduction of kerbside collections of food and organic waste.
A NSW Court of Appeal decision that reshaped industry views on liability for waste and asbestos will stand, after the High Court refused a company's request to review the matter.
The ACCC is investigating prices charged for processing NSW construction and demolition waste, after it last year approved Bingo Industries' acquisition of Dial-A-Dump to become the dominant company in the sector.