Browsing: <a href="/tag/nsw">NSW</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/vic">Victoria</a>

Both NSW and Victoria will soon announce interim emissions reduction targets that lead to net-zero.

• Major new battery recycling facility proposed for Latrobe Valley
  
• ARENA offers $15m to tackle solar PV waste, improve panel efficiency
  
• Almost a quarter of eucalypt species at risk of extinction
  
• EPA signals overhaul of radiation protection regime

• Court rules EPA and council unlawfully cut quarry's extraction quota
  
• Paper the big challenge for waste export bans
  
• Tribunal orders waste site clean-up, assurance of at least $1.1m

Highlights include federal and state court cases, a new Victorian law, a Queensland plastic pollution plan, and a South Australian blue carbon strategy. Jobs include posts with Fulton Hogan, Cardno and Capricorn Copper.

• Top bureaucrats to appear before waste inquiry
  
• AGL commits to large-scale battery storage deal
  
• EPA issues prevention notice to Cleanaway over hazardous waste

• City of Sydney leads push for TCFD-style climate risk disclosure by governments
  
• Era of waste under-investment must end, NSW councils warn
  
• Water utility plans opt-in for AEMO payments to curtail electricity load

• EPA issues guidance on PFAS in leachate and soils
  
• New WA air guidance for approval and licence applications
  
• Water pollution costs council $105,000