The WA EPA can't support Cameco's Yeelirrie uranium mine while there is evidence it might cause extinctions, says the agency's chair Tom Hatton, but that doesn't mean the project won't eventually go ahead.
A wetlands protection group will seek leave to appeal to the High Court, after an appeal court today ruled the environmental approval for a highway extension was valid.
WA's Environment Minister Albert Jacob has compared state Labor's vote against a biodiversity bill to the federal Greens' rejection of the CPRS emissions trading scheme.
Too many states have a lax approach to biodiversity offsetting and that is partly why legislative reform is proving so difficult, according to conservation expert Hugh Possingham.
WA Environment Minister Albert Jacob has introduced a bill that would replace a decades-old wildlife protection law and significantly boost penalties for harming threatened species.