Victoria today gazetted classification criteria that specify when soils containing extremely low levels of PFAS will be considered suitable for use as fill.
A tribunal has put on hold an EPA notice that would require a council to disclose information on a contaminated site that it owns to developers proposing to build a hotel next door.
In a judgment that might yet be tested in the High Court, an appeal court has upheld a decision that found liquidators were liable for the costs of cleaning up a major waste dump.
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.
The Victorian Ombudsman will investigate the state EPA's handling of decisions on suitable disposal sites for spoil from the West Gate Tunnel project, which contains low levels of PFAS.