Browsing: <a href="/tag/air-pollution-odour">Air pollution, odour</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/resource-efficiency-waste">Resource efficiency, waste</a>

Newly-announced decisions by Viva Energy will help cut urban air pollution, and will pave the way for large-scale, advanced plastic recycling.

• High Court rejects Volkswagen bid to appeal $125 million emissions penalty
  
• EPA orders Cleanaway not to accept waste at Sydney site
  
• Ley seeks nominations for product stewardship list

• Alcoa commits to net-zero
  
• New national push to standardise waste reporting
  
• Coal heartland accounted for 87% of Victoria's SO2 emissions

Federal, state and territory environment ministers have agreed to tighten air quality standards for SO2, NO2 and ozone.

• Children's blood lead levels rising near smelter
  
• Developer to pay $1m to clean-up asbestos-contaminated waste
  
• Union official to co-chair NSW's new renewables board

Failing to prevent serious odour problems when building a WestConnex interchange on an old Dial-A-Dump landfill site has cost a CIMIC subsidiary almost half a million dollars.

• Victorian government allocates $30m to manage seized waste stockpile
  
• Tyre recycler facing Victorian court action seeks interstate licence
  
• Boral ordered to control dust emissions

• Minister rejects appeal against BHP licence amendment
  
• Queensland to develop Reef island decarbonisation plans
  
• Coca Cola Amatil to boost use of recycled plastic

• EPA allows recycler to restart, but court case looms
  
• National energy savings scheme could save 4.5 times Liddell output
  
• EPA issues dust and noise improvement plan to Adelaide Brighton

NSW Labor would make changes on single-use plastics, environmental licensing, waste-to-energy, biodiversity and air quality, party leader Michael Daley has pledged.