Browsing: NSW

• Jail sentence 'excessive', environment court rules
  
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• China explores regional emissions trading; tax measures
  
• Productivity Commission releases urban water reform paper
  
• U.S. EPA's Clean Air Act turns 40

The NSW Supreme Court has found Shell guilty of misleading or deceptive conduct and breach of contract over its handling of contamination on a Sydney site and has found that it intervened in the production of a URS report in order to limit the consultancy's ability to report on the 'extent and effect' of the oil company's remediation efforts.

• City of Sydney launches $12.3 million solar PV roll-out
  
• Works begin on Upper Hunter pollution monitoring stations
  
• Green Rock Energy awarded $7 million geothermal grant
  
• Victoria hosting pump energy efficiency event

In a novel remedy for a pollution offence, the NSW Land & Environment Court has declined to impose a penalty and instead ordered a struggling abattoir with a "poor" environmental record to spend $84,000 on a mandatory environmental audit.

• We can impose industry greenhouse controls and we'll explore all options, NSW says
  
• Landfill seeks approval to take an extra one million tonnes a year
  
• BHP Billiton details sustainability performance
  
• Transpacific wins $3.6 million hazardous waste grant
  
• New Zealand opens new round of free trading scheme allocations

• EPA Victoria launches searchable database of licences
  
• NSW environment department targets coal mines
  
• NZ opens new marine energy funding round
  
• Victoria offers free test drives of electric cars, hybrids

• TRUenergy wins $100 million Victorian solar plant grant
  
• NSW to phase out landfill caps
  
• NAB shines in new Carbon Disclosure Project analysis
  
• OECD to U.S. – pricing carbon is the 'cornerstone' measure

The NSW environment department doesn't know whether its regulatory approach has improved compliance by licence-holders or whether its response to tip-offs and complaints is minimising environmental harm, says an audit that is highly critical of its handling of pollution incidents.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has directed the NSW Government to remove contaminants before it sinks a ship off NSW's central coast, in a ruling the NSW EDO says highlights that environmental considerations are "paramount" in decisions under the Sea Dumping Act.

The failure of the NSW Government to spend its landfill levy revenue on recycling infrastructure has come under fire at a conference in Sydney today.