SA Water's main sub-contractor will provide $500,000 to the South Australian EPA, after it sent 77,000 tonnes of waste to two sites that a court found it had no reason to believe were licensed.
South Australia's EPA will review business environmental licence conditions to ensure they take proper account of the increasing risk of extreme weather, according to a new climate change position statement.
A court has fined Nyrstar $35,000 over an acid spill at its Port Pirie smelter, while SA Health says lead levels in children living near the smelter are increasing.
With South Australian government backing, The Nature Conservancy is examining ways to make wetlands restoration financially viable, partly by earning ERF carbon credits, and by establishing a 'blue carbon' insurance fund.
A couple were entitled to back-out of a contract to buy land next to a RAAF base, because the vendors didn't disclose it was in a PFAS investigation zone, South Australia's highest court has ruled.