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In a significant victory for the recycling industry, the NSW EPA today abandoned plans to tighten restrictions on using residues left over from construction waste.

Imposing tougher air pollution controls on old facilities will have a net benefit of $665 million over 20 years, according to the NSW EPA.

Proponents of renewable energy projects need earlier guidance on what biodiversity offsets are likely to cost, the Clean Energy Council has told the NSW government.

NSW's Independent Planning Commission says it would be unreasonable to require a coal mine to offset all residual operational emissions.

A subsidiary of Baiada Poultry has failed to overturn a fine and conviction following an ammonia leak at its plant near Newcastle.

Proponents should use a range of carbon prices in cost-benefit analyses prepared for development consent applications, the NSW planning department has advised.

The NSW Parliament has passed a Bill that gives the EPA new powers to target company directors, and strengthens its ability to take action on site contamination and waste dumping.

A senior NSW judge has rejected arguments by Santos that a community action group should pay its legal costs, after the group lost a climate change test case.

In an unusual move, the NSW EPA has appealed the sentence imposed by a judge in a waste test case, two years after it successfully appealed her initial ruling in the matter.

After giving an enforceable undertaking for a water breach that Whitehaven Coal said reflected typical behaviour in the mining industry, a court has now fined the company $200,000.