Proposed new environment legislation for NSW would allow former directors to be held accountable, increase penalties, strengthen controls on contaminated land, and boost the EPA's independence.
A NSW Bill allowing biodiversity and carbon credits to be generated from actions in national parks is deeply flawed, according to a leading biodiversity scientist.
NSW Liberal and Labor politicians have agreed in a new committee report that pollution limits on the state's coal power plants are outdated, and they want a Greens Clean Air Bill debated.
Weston Aluminium has failed to convince a court that it shouldn't pay waste levy contributions because it is merely processing waste, not disposing of it.
A new NSW bill enables the state government to monetise biodiversity and carbon sequestration actions in national parks that go beyond business-as-usual.
A new NSW law puts more pressure on companies to cut packaging waste, tightens controls on plastic, and enables financial assurance requirements to be imposed on brand owners.
Chief Justice Brian Preston of NSW's Land and Environment Court today rejected arguments that the consent for the Santos Narrabri coal seam gas project was invalid on greenhouse gas grounds.
The NSW Nature Conservation Council has launched a legal challenge against a new state water-sharing plan, on the grounds it was developed without properly considering climate change.