Greens and Labor senators have recommended that ships in Dampier port use low-sulphur diesel, if they are contributing to acid damage of Aboriginal rock art.
The Western Australian government will revise contaminated sites guidance and increase air monitoring at locations including Port Hedland and Kalgoorlie, state budget papers show.
The Western Australian EPA today presented its report on dust levels near an Alcoa refinery, five years after a parliamentary inquiry said conflict over its buffer zone should be urgently resolved.
Port Hedland residents face a greater risk of death and disease due to particle emissions compared to their city counterparts, and some risks would be two-thirds lower if the local particle standard was actually met, says a new study.
Environment ministers have backed air quality measures that include tougher controls on particle pollution, but Australians will no longer have a consistent level of protection from the serious health effects of fine particles.