Browsing: <a href="/tag/qld">Queensland</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/adaptation-science">Adaptation, science</a>

• Parliament passes coastal law
  
• New guidance for developments near landfills
  
• Airport PFC contamination triggers multi-agency response

• New study predicts huge rise in emissions due to clearing, LNG
  
• New subsidies for construction waste recycling
  
• Climate scholarships on offer for councils

More developments are likely to require Sustainable Planning Act assessment, after a decision by the Palaszczuk Government to redraw coastal zone boundaries so they consider sea-level rise.

Environment ministers have agreed to strengthen controls on particle pollution, speed up work on a national clean air agreement and establish a national standard for the environmental management of chemicals.

• Queensland Government to mandate 2% ethanol
  
• NSW offers councils climate resilience grants
  
• Tribunal rules in favour of renderer

If Labor takes office after Saturday's election, Queensland's laws on impact assessment, planning, water, waste and offsets will likely change, and so too might the approach to drafting and enforcing environmental legislation.

A new Queensland regulation will result in fewer coastal developments undergoing state government assessment, because it adopts a new map that doesn't consider sea-level rise.

The proponent of a commercial-scale oil shale project near Gladstone has begun the process of securing an environmental licence.

Dredging and other activities that affect the Great Barrier Reef would no longer require EPBC approval, but would instead only be assessed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, under new proposals.

Queensland's Supreme Court will for the first time rule on whether the state's Environmental Protection Act obliges the environment department to consider emissions from coal burning, in a dispute over approval of Hancock Coal's Alpha mine.