Australian Paper must satisfy more stringent controls on feedstock for its proposed large-scale waste to energy plant, following the settlement of a legal challenge.
A tribunal has refused to grant Alinta a planning permit for a wind farm because of its impact on an airfield and its proximity to a roosting area for a critically endangered bat.
A council can ask McDonald's for a contamination assessment of a site not intended for a sensitive use, but requiring it to pay for a peer review is going too far, a tribunal has ruled.
EPA Victoria chief executive Cathy Wilkinson says Victoria's new environmental law will make it much easier to prosecute organisations that have poor environmental management.
Consolidated environmental regulations to support Victoria's new environment law will be released for comment in July, according to Dr Cathy Wilkinson, head of the state's EPA.