A Federal Government report, issued today, reveals plans to 'streamline' federal hazardous waste laws and to use mutual recognition arrangements to manage federal, state and territory threatened species lists.
South Australia's EPA has imposed a $21,000 civil penalty on smelting company Nyrstar, for failing to follow NATA standards in its handling of air samples.
A court has overturned a ministerial decision not to grant a mining company a groundwater extraction licence in a region where aquifer degradation has long been a concern.