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EPA Victoria is conducting a blitz of targeted industry in the Bayswater area to stop waste liquids from leaving their premises and enter stormwater drains. Targeted […]
An auto salvage company in Victoria has failed to comply with an EPA Victoria notice that has resulted in a fine of $5,548. The company did […]
The QLD Department of Environment and Science (DES), the QLD Office of Fair Trading and the Queensland Police Service has undertaken a 2 day compliance operation […]
EPA Victoria is undertaking blitz inspections in the Horsham industrial zones and Tullamarine areal to ensure businesses are protecting the environment. EPA will be speaking to […]
EPA Victoria authorised officers will inspect industrial precincts across Victoria to check businesses are preventing stormwater pollution risks. How to control wastewater from your business and […]
NSW EPA has released a guideline – ‘Powers and Notices’ that is designed to help regulatory authorities, authorised officers and enforcement officers understand and use their […]
Australia’s largest supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths have been served by NSW EPA with a draft Clean-up Notice to remove more than 5,200 tonnes of soft plastic […]
The NSW Land and Environment Court has convicted a snow resort and ordered it to pay more than $200,000 in fines and costs as a result […]
A company in Clayton has been fined more than $5,000 after staff at a Doreen petrol station poured milk waste down a stormwater drain that leads […]
EPA Victoria (EPA) has charged a company operating the Sunshine Landfill at Kealba and its three directors with breaches of the General Environmental Duty (GED) under […]
A transport and warehousing company in Laverton North, Victoria may face a maximum penalty of up $1.8 million for the alleged chemical spill into Cherry Creek […]
The QLD Department of Environment and Science (DES) compliance officers will undertake an inspection blitz to target metal recyclers across Southeast Queensland to reduce the risk […]
A 63-year-old man has been fined $6,000 in the Emerald Magistrates Court, after pleading guilty to clearing more than two hectares of the Carnarvon National Park […]
EPA SA has released a statement advising that the operators of two unlicensed waste facilities have been fined $511,000 and ordered to pay a further $680,000 […]
EPA Victoria is undertaking an extensive unannounced blitz of business sites in the north and west of Melbourne, Gippsland, the north east and north west of […]
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has released its Compliance and Enforcement Priorities for 2022-2023. These priorities set out where CER will be focusing its compliance and enforcement […]
EPA Victoria are investigating how waste was left at a site in McIntyre Road, Sunshine North that includes a range of dangerous industrial waste and potentially […]
Remediation of a former waste oil facility in the Maitland suburb of Rutherford is set to begin, with the land now in the hands of the […]
A landfill has been fined $20,000 plus $7000 of EPA Victoria’s court costs at the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court for a failure to notify EPA of their […]
A water authority has been fined over $9,000 for the discharge of more than 30 million litres of wastewater into Macleod Morass from the Bairnsdale Wastewater […]
Unannounced inspections of businesses by NSW EPA and Penrith City Council Officers may take place at Dunheved Industrial Estate that will target stormwater management and chemical […]
The Clean Energy Regulator has released the latest Compliance Update for 1 April to 30 June 2022 that includes: the latest on 2021-2022 Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) […]
NSW EPA has launched its second prosecution this year against Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) for allegedly failing to retain habitat for local wildlife, by felling […]
A waste management facility in WA has been fined $18,000 and ordered to pay costs of $788.30 in the Magistrates Court after a WA Department of […]
A fine of $5,452 has been issued to a dairy company for failing to comply with a requirement of an EPA remedial notice that related to […]
Charges have been laid against an individual under the Environment Protection Act 2017, for the dumping and burning of industrial waste on an unlicensed property in […]
Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) has been fined $15,000 for allegedly failing to comply with a post bushfire condition imposed to protect critical habitat in a […]
The NSW Government has commenced remediation of a former waste oil processing facility in the Maitland suburb of Rutherford, after taking over the site from the […]
An order for clean-up costs of $500,000 has been issued to a South Australian company for the deposit of waste materials at unlicensed depots. The company […]
NSW EPA is conducting a compliance blitz that aims to stop the misuse of pesticides in the Hearnes Lake Catchment area near Coffs Harbour NSW. Horticulture […]
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