Browsing: <a href="/tag/wa">WA</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/air-pollution-odour">Air pollution, odour</a>

Emissions of 52 of 93 reported substances decreased in 2009-10, but emissions of cyanide from metal ore mining almost doubled, reveals new National Pollutant Inventory data.

• Contractor's actions put lead mine under further EPA scrutiny
  
• SA EPA receives more than 2,300 complaints, finalises only two prosecutions
  
• Government seeks 'carbon farming' project applications

WA Environment Minister Bill Marmion has lifted a ban on Magellan Metals, after he accepted that laboratory errors were to blame for it appearing to breach lead limits, but the company is still under investigation for failing to rapidly report the apparently high levels and the minister has imposed new reporting requirements directly on its MD.

• WA EPA recommends minister reject second mine
  
• Study finds no cancer link to Victorian hazardous waste landfill
  
• BP Solar releases EIS for $600 million, 150MW PV plant
  
• Climate department issues updated budget estimates

Claims by residents near Alcoa's three WA refineries that they have suffered ill-health as a result of exposure to toxic emissions should be heard in Western Australia and not in the U.S., an appeals court has ruled.

• NT Government lashes beverage industry 'scare campaign'
  
• Plan B: Obama urges 2035 clean energy goal, targets 'big oil' tax breaks
  
• Health and climate change academic receives Order of Australia
  
• WA quarry operator licence appeal makes little headway

Griffin Power has had another win in its plans to add 458MW of new coal-fired generating capacity to the Bluewaters power station near Collie, with WA's Environment Minister Bill Marmion agreeing to delete an air quality condition from the project approval.

A WA composting facility that diverts thousands of tonnes of waste from landfill and has spent more than $2.4 million in the last two years to address odour problems, has lost its appeal against licence amendments that require it to ensure odours don't 'interfere' with anyone off-site.

• WA company ordered to halt chemical incineration
  
• Draft Federal HVAC code targets building owners and managers
  
• Government issues guidance on EPBC Act and controlled burns
  
• New Zealand to create national EPA
  
• Clean Energy Council says Victorian Opposition policy would decimate wind industry

• City of Sydney launches $12.3 million solar PV roll-out
  
• Works begin on Upper Hunter pollution monitoring stations
  
• Green Rock Energy awarded $7 million geothermal grant
  
• Victoria hosting pump energy efficiency event