Browsing: <a href="/tag/vic">Victoria</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/biodiversity-epbc-act">Biodiversity/EPBC Act</a>

• Hand over EPBC approval powers, Productivity Commission says
  
• Energy ministers endorse coal seam gas best-practice principles
  
• Victoria to issue ministerial statements on energy and resources

• Alcoa pleads guilty to WA licence breach
  
• Canberra releases EPBC service charter
  
• Works approval sought for new outer-Melbourne landfill

• From unacceptable to approved: WA EPA changes view on access track
  
• Court orders Transpacific to pay $90,000 after waste trial goes wrong
  
• Texas explosion underlines case for moving Orica: NSW Greens

A $12m native vegetation protection agreement for a $759m freeway project is one of Victoria's biggest offset deals, and is proceeding against the backdrop of a dispute over the proper role of offsets in managing the state's biodiversity.

• Former NSW environment boss to lead EPBC committee on CSG and coal mines
  
• Two more landfill gas projects cleared to create CFI credits
  
• Recalcitrant landfill operator finally hands over levy payments
  
• WA Parliament seeks urgent increase in sandalwood harvesting penalties
  
• NSW issues guidelines on hazardous ground gases

As state governments and the private sector clamour for delegation of Federal EPBC approval powers, Victoria's Auditor-General has delivered a scathing assessment of the effectiveness of the state environment department's approach to compliance.

• Orica made us tougher on industry: NSW Government
  
• Victoria launches new resource efficiency program
  
• WA confiscates illegal wood worth $600,000

• In from the cold: Ceiling insulation to regain VEET recognition?
  
• NSW flags audits of incident response plans
  
• WA extends Margaret River coal ban

• Queensland and Burke discuss revising EPBC bilateral
  
• NZ considers new carbon assistance terms
  
• EPA Victoria details its approach to enforcement
  
• SA Greens MLC seeks moratorium on major projects

• Challenge to NSW remediation order fails
  
• Industry associations share $20m in energy efficiency grants
  
• Commission details views on smart meters and privacy
  
• New draft GreenPower rules issued
  
• EPA Victoria seeks feedback on key reforms