A new federal strategy that will pick 100 threatened species for special intervention has been challenged by environment groups, with WWF calling for a broader 'zero extinctions' approach. Read more...
Environmentalists have warned industry not to use native timber sourced from VicForests, as they prepare to go to the High Court over a Federal Court decision today in favour of the logging agency. Read more...
* Fortescue exits the ERF
* Victoria seeks participants to trial zero-emissions buses
* Taylor finalises new bilateral emissions and energy deal Read more...
The government's own advisory body on threatened species has doubts about a government EPBC Bill, and Australia's peak organisation for environmental lawyers says it is too flawed to pass. Read more...
Instead of tightening NO2 air quality standards in two stages, environment ministers have decided to move immediately to goals that were originally proposed for 2025. Read more...
The Morrison government has given South Australia at least $560 million to help fund clean energy and emissions abatement actions, after last year allocating $960 million to NSW. Read more...
Volkswagen has failed to convince the Full Federal Court that a $125 million penalty imposed on it for cheating on air pollution tests was manifestly excessive. Read more...
As his duties extend to resolving transmission line disputes, wind farm commissioner Andrew Dyer says he is receiving a rising number of complaints from landowners leasing property to clean energy projects. Read more...
