Western Australia's Supreme Court has ruled soil and sand sent to landfill is exempt from the state's waste levy if it contains asbestos that can't reasonably be separated out. Read more...
The NSW EPA today lost its appeal against a court ruling that it issued an invalid notice seeking information on the application of treated mixed waste to land. Read more...
SA Water's main sub-contractor will provide $500,000 to the South Australian EPA, after it sent 77,000 tonnes of waste to two sites that a court found it had no reason to believe were licensed. Read more...
A court has accepted EPA arguments that emails and text messages demonstrate a company had a tendency to supply false or misleading information, and its director had a propensity to promote a culture of dishonesty and deception. Read more...
A court has rejected a Bob Brown Foundation application for an interim order halting work on a mine tailings storage facility, after the company proposing it gave additional undertakings. Read more...
Two companies and a director linked to a site where a large chemicals fire occurred have failed to convince a court to summarily dismiss attempts to recover clean-up costs from them. Read more...
The former director of a waste company has been ordered to pay $460,000 in fines and legal costs for providing false information about asbestos-contaminated waste that he dumped illegally. Read more...
A West Australian court has rejected arguments that the head of the environment department is obliged to consider whether to suspend or cancel or licence when a breach has occurred. Read more...
A court has fined Cleanaway $617,500 for causing pollution and being slow to report it, and has ordered it to pay EPA costs of $305,000, while its clean-up costs totalled $750,000. Read more...
A court has ordered a Whitehaven subsidiary to pay $158,750 to NSW’s Environmental Trust after it polluted an ephemeral creek near its open-cut coal mine. Read more...
