Browsing: NSW

• Sydney's ozone levels to skyrocket
  
• Labor promises $40 million for 'emerging renewables'
  
• Orica wins approval to export first batch of hazardous waste
  
• Overdue Collie air study to be released 'imminently'
  
• ClimateWorks Australia wins 'Eureka' climate innovation award

The NSW Government has approved a proposal by an aluminium recycler to trial a process that would convert spent potlining material into a slag suitable for crushing and use as an aggregate in roadbase.

In the first NSW court case of its kind, an environmental consultancy and its director must pay $120,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to damaging threatened species habitat by providing the wrong advice to a developer.

A coal mining company that resolved a dispute with another coal miner by clearing endangered vegetation to erect a boundary fence must pay $125,000 in penalties and costs, the NSW environment court has ordered.

• ALP commits to ban on illegal timber, puts onus on suppliers
  
• NSW Court finds no-show abattoir guilty of water pollution
  
• Another GECA standard gets 'green building' tick

• Pressure to expand NSW greenhouse gas trading scheme
  
• 'Widespread agreement on the need for a fixed carbon price'
  
• Breakthrough deal unlikely at next UN climate summit: Bamsey
  
• 'Targets and timetables' the wrong approach: McKibbin
  
• Peak science body poised to issue climate science guide
  
• Greens propose $5 billion loan guarantee scheme
  
• Coalition: we'd inspect every insulated home

Even if activists lose a NSW CO2 pollution test case against Bayswater power station, the matter is still likely to add to the pressure on companies to do more to reduce emissions, says environmental lawyer Andrew Edgar.

• Queensland mine faces fine of up to $15.8 million
  
• 'Unmistakeable' signs of warming: U.S. report
  
• WA funds commercial composting project
  
• Caroma, AGL, Sydney Water among NSW award winners

The Australian Sustainable Business Group has written to the NSW Ombudsman's Office arguing against granting an FOI request by Channel 9's investigations editor seeking information on Sydney's largest users of water.

• NSW clean air regulations inadequate, environmental lawyers say
  
• 'Clean, green and mean': Gillard
  
• Alliance urges Victoria to retrofit one million homes