Browsing: NSW

A NSW court has found a company guilty of illegally transported waste to an unlicensed facility for disposal, after it trucked liquid waste from a treatment facility to a dairy farm for soil injection.

• NSW energy efficiency scheme dominated by one activity
  
• WA to tweak conditions for $2.5 billion chemical project
  
• We want your feedback – CE Daily reader survey
  
• Top scientist speaks out against 'climate denial industry' (with audio)

• Victorian report ticks smart meters
  
• NSW releases new sea-level rise guides
  
• Qld councils join forces on green waste

• Waste levy role fundamental, says NSW regulator
  
• Prepare now for peak oil: Australia Institute
  
• UK industrial ecology scheme saves $1.32bn in five years

By 2015, about a quarter of Sydney's water should come from desalination and recycling, according to a water plan released today by the NSW Government.

• Majority of Australians wary of industry climate 'scare campaigns'
  
• Tasmanian report outlines climate change effects
  
• NSW wind farm court challenge averted

• Dust settles and OneSteel Whyalla gets sustainability licence
  
• Greens and two independents line up to back climate action
  
• CO2 Australia writes-off $5.5m in WA plantings in wake of CPRS collapse
  
• Sartor's air pollution package misses the point: TEC

• Victoria to smooth way for renewable project assessments
  
• NSW Solar Bonus scheme reaches 50MW review trigger
  
• Trading can work for agriculture: climate lawyer

A newly-released NSW planning guideline explains how development should be assessed within a coastal risk area based on a likely 2100 sea level rise of 90cm and proposes measures including 'time-limited' development consents.

Australians should not have to wait until 2015 for tougher national vehicle emissions standards to come into effect, said NSW Energy Minister Frank Sartor, with the minister also committing $1.8 million to tackle particle pollution.