* Cleanaway approved to dispose of PFAS-contaminated tunnel spoil
* EPA prosecutes waste company MRI
* Tribunal issues enforcement order against Bingo Read more...
A proposed new carbon exchange could allow steel, aluminium and clean energy producers to demonstrate the climate credentials of their products to export markets, according to the Clean Energy Regulator. Read more...
The Minerals Council has claimed to a parliamentary inquiry that many businesses are scared to provide it with evidence because of climate change campaigns against them. Read more...
* Foreign Minister Payne meets with US climate envoy
* Clean Energy Regulator adopts whistleblower platform
* SA to build Australia's first all-electric hospital Read more...
* Tribunal upholds works approval refusal
* New chief for WA environment department
* Tribunal allows brick company to extract clay, despite landscape zoning
* Lead-acid battery recycler seeks licence change Read more...
Sustainability spending comprises only 0.8% of Budget expenditure, according to environmentalists, but carbon market experts and waste groups have welcomed some significant allocations. Read more...
Highlights include a Queensland biodiversity regulation, new NSW commissioners, and grants. Vacancies include positions with Boral and Suncorp, and manager of infrastructure investment with Sustainability Victoria. Read more...
The Budget allocates almost $280 million over the next decade to allow large greenhouse gas emitters covered by the Safeguard Mechanism to earn special carbon credits by undertaking abatement action. Read more...
A ban on exports of mixed plastic waste is less than two months away, but Australia has only half the domestic processing capacity that it needs, the waste and recycling industry has warned. Read more...
