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After Rio Tinto advised that it couldn't clean up the Ranger uranium mine site by 2026, the Albanese government has introduced a Bill that will allow the company to take as long as it needs.

Labor has sided with the Coalition to vote down a Greens-backed attempt by One Nation to retrospectively make Woodside liable for remediation of an ageing oil processing vessel that it sold in 2015.

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Shine Lawyers today confirmed that the Department of Defence will pay $212.5 million to settle three PFAS class actions.

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Environmental regulators have provided detailed advice for water utilities on accepting trade waste and using biosolids, in a proposed update of the national PFAS management plan.

A new EPA could be established for Commonwealth lands, and those affected by PFAS will be better compensated, if the unanimous recommendations of a new parliamentary report are adopted.

South Australia's Environment Minister David Speirs has criticised Defence for failing to provide PFAS data and has recommended tougher regulatory controls on contamination spreading from Commonwealth sites.

The parent company of Shine Lawyers today advised the ASX that it will be launching a new class action over PFAS against the Department of Defence.

A joint federal parliamentary committee has started a new inquiry into PFAS contamination in and around Defence bases that will examine environmental standards and the financial impact of the pollution.