Browsing: Site contamination

NSW's Court of Appeal today rejected a company's arguments that contaminated land it owns had been over-valued by tens of millions of dollars.

The head of the NSW EPA has resigned, following confusion and concern caused by a decision to ban some organic wastes from reuse on farms and mine sites.

• WA reviews clean fill standards
  
• Farmers left in the dark on organic waste risks
  
• Victorian Labor commits to 50% renewables
  
• Commbank 'unlikely' to fund new fossil fuel projects

A tribunal has ruled that warehouses can be built on a property once used by Nufarm to manufacture DDT, even though the site contamination audit is more than 20 years' old.

• EPA chases Panama-based company over $4.5m tyre clean-up costs
  
• Recycling site declared contaminated
  
• More than 200 recycling sites need 'urgent attention': Taskforce

Companies with major hazard facilities threatened legal action against a move by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade to require them to to use fluorine-free fire foams, which prompted the brigade to adopt a different strategy.

A developer that didn't proceed with a $25 million property purchase has failed to convince an appeal court that the vendor breached a requirement to notify it of contamination.

• Defence contractor gives enforceable undertaking to EPA
  
• Company's court battle with EPA to cost it more than $270,000
  
• Councils invited to apply for waste grants

A rewrite of Victoria's main environment law has immediate ramifications for businesses and people that have ever controlled or managed contaminated sites, according to White & Case partner Tim Power.

• IAG strengthens supply chain scrutiny, sets 2019 TCFD deadline
  
• PFAS found at waste facilities
  
• Takeover bid for dual-listed renewables company