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The federal government will this year introduce a bill to establish a nationally consistent approach for managing the environmental risks of industrial chemicals. Read more...
Open access. A Footprint list of key climate change and sustainability developments to watch out for in 2020. Read more...
The Morrison government has finalised wide-ranging rules that reveal exactly how its new chemicals law will operate, including its ban on animal testing of cosmetics. Read more...
Defence might be using firefighting foams that are entirely free of fluorine compounds as soon as next year, a federal Parliamentary inquiry has heard. Read more...
Millions of tonnes of hazardous waste are stockpiled around Australia and a new federal report questions whether the entities responsible will always have to pay the cost of clean-up. Read more...
The amount of hazardous waste generated in Australia has increased by more than a third in just three years, and there aren't adequate safety checks on biosolids applied to land, warns a new federal report. Read more...
Six years after committing to a global treaty to phase-out mercury, the federal government is yet to launch a parliamentary inquiry to enable ratification. Read more...
Prompted by the discovery of high-risk chemical waste stockpiles, the Victorian government will today introduce a dangerous goods bill with a new maximum penalty of $6.4 million. Read more...
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