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The NSW EPA has issued a landfill with a prevention notice requiring it to carry out actions to address operating and pollution control issues causing odours […]
The NSW EPA has fined issued a $30,000 fine to a recycling facility for a licence breach related to dust management. Following community complaints, EPA officers […]
The NSW EPA has amended an existing Clean Up Notice after PFAS were detected in the Capertee River near Genowlan Road Bridge, Glen Alice, downstream of Brogans […]
EPA Victoria is seeking the community’s ideas on how to spend the $1 million that a waste management company was ordered to pay over odour issues […]
EPA Victoria has fined a Caroline Springs rendering company $10,176 in fines for illegal waste dumping. The company dumped construction waste on a vacant plot of […]
EPA Victoria has fined the occupier of a Sunbury property for the second time in six months for illegally burning industrial waste. A total of $16,280 […]
A recycling company that failed to manage fire risks and breached EPA permission conditions at three factories in Melbourne’s south-east will pay $80,000 into EPA Victoria’s […]
EPA Victoria has fined a skip bin company $10,176 for the unlawful deposit of more than 1,000 litres of waste after receiving a tip from the […]
The Victorian Essential Services Commission has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria against energy retailer ENGIE. ENGIE is the fifth largest energy […]
The Victorian Essential Services Commission has banned an accredited business from the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program and refused millions of dollars in certificates claimed by […]
The NSW EPA continues to investigate a fish kill event in the Hunter River at Mount Thorley. Reports from locals indicated that hundreds of dead fish […]
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined a Broken Hill lead, zinc and copper mine $30,000 for failing to properly manage dust pollution at one […]
The NSW EPA has entered into a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the a company, which has agreed to pay $150,000 after mulch allegedly containing minor […]
The Compliance and Enforcement Branch of the Federal Department Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water recently took part in a global operation targeting illegal waste […]
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has recently permanently suspended the registration of a company as a registered person under the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000 as they […]
EPA Victoria has fined a man $1,976 after he dumped a truckload of industrial waste at a vacant house block in broad daylight at Ashwood. The […]
The Victorian Essential Services Commission has accepted a court enforceable undertaking requiring a company to rectify non-compliant water heater installations at its own cost. As an […]
The organisation responsible for managing timber production in NSW’s state-owned native and plantation forests has been ordered to pay $450,000 in penalties after prosecution by the […]
The NSW EPA has fined a company after the valve on a tank was left open and an unknown amount of polluted water flowed into nearby […]
The 2024 collapse of a grain silo and subsequent release of 2,000 tonnes of wheat grain into the Shoalhaven River has resulted in a legally binding […]
The Federal Government has fined a company $19,800 for hiding e-waste in a shipping container exported to Singapore. The illegal export of hazardous waste was attempted […]
EPA Victoria has warned that companies who fail to show how they are reducing packaging waste will risk significant penalties. The warning has come after big […]
As part of an ongoing inspection blitz on odour-causing industries in Melbourne’s inner west, EPA Victoria has conducted more than 36 inspections across 22 sites. The […]
EPA Victoria has confirmed that the site of Melbourne’s biggest industrial fire in nearly a decade has now been cleaned up. EPA West Metropolitan regional manager […]
EPA Victoria has issued $20,000 in fines after a routine inspection in the suburb of Officer in Melbourne’s east revealed a truck unloading approximately 200 worn-out […]
EPA Victoria has issued a $2,035 fine for a Laverton North company that allowed its liquid waste to discharge into Cherry Creek. In late January 2026, […]
A NSW landfill has been ordered to pay $520,000 in fines and legal costs by the NSW Land and Environment Court, following prosecution by the NSW […]
The NSW EPA has issued a Pollution Reduction Program to Sydney Water including the requirement to remove fat from the Malabar Deep Ocean Outfall bulkhead area. […]
A NSW coal mine has been ordered to pay $815,000 in fines and penalties after being convicted of five environmental offences linked to discharges of untreated […]
A 28-tonne load of burnt industrial waste that was not registered with Waste Tracker, EPA Victoria’s tracking system for high-risk waste, has cost a Horsham company […]
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