The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has renewed the five-year licence without significant change to pollution controls at Delta Electricity’s Vales Point Power Station at Mannering Park. The licence renewal…
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A report by Dr Ben Ewald for Doctors for the Environment Australia. Particle air pollution in New South Wales is getting worse, with the annual averages for both fine and…
By Lisa Cox Bylong Valley residents hope Rocky Hill decision will sway state commission to reject proposed open-cut mine. Activists and residents fighting against a proposed coalmine in central New…
By Adam Carey and Ed Bourke A waste-to-energy plant planned for the Latrobe Valley could burn the equivalent of more than half of Victoria’s domestic rubbish. Garbage from 1.4 million…
Media Release As the prosecution of Adani for alleged pollution at the Abbot Point Coal terminal returns to court today, a new report raises fresh concerns about the Adani Group’s…
By Pheobe Maloney NSW Labor’s energy spokesperson Adam Searle says Labor would direct the Environment Protection Authority to review the licences of the state’s five coal-fired power plants if the…
Media Release Victoria’s Labor Government is under pressure to crack down on air pollution from coal-fired power stations after the Labor Opposition in NSW announced a 10 year plan to…
Media Release Pressure is now on the Berejiklian government to tighten power station pollution licences to protect human health after State Labor pledged to review emissions standards to “ensure they…
By Peter Hannam A Daley Labor government would review the emissions standards of all NSW’s coal-fired power plants and finalise a 10-year plan to improve air quality in the state….
By Carrie Fellner The NSW environment watchdog has launched an investigation into revelations a coal waste product sold by AGL to “various markets” has tested positive for elevated levels of…
By Joanne McCarthy COAL ash with elevated heavy metal levels could have left AGL’s Bayswater and Liddell power station sites since 2015, breaching environmental orders and ramping up calls for…
By David Barnden In a world first, 23-year-old Mark McVeigh has filed a legal action alleging the trustee of his retirement fund, the Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST), breached the fiduciary duties…
THERE is no doubt that when the NSW Environment Protection Authority issued a clean-up notice to Delta Electricity in October, after suspected asbestos and other demolition material was found at…
By Joanne McCarthy THE state’s environmental watchdog has been slammed after suspected asbestos waste and a “large stockpile” of demolition waste was found across a 30,000 square metre area at…
By Lisa Cox Court hears department and VicForests have not protected minimum area of old-growth forest required by law in East Gippsland. Logging in old-growth forests in Victoria should cease,…
A public forum on the ‘Health impacts of coal-fired power stations in NSW’ was held on Wednesday, November 28 at Uniting Church Parish Hall. Speakers at the forum included Dr…
Publicly available air quality monitoring should be conducted at Wyee, a community with an aging coal-fired power station, but with no current air monitoring, according to a new report into…
By Michael Slezak An environmental lawyer says there are serious questions about the legality of almost all logging in Victorian state forests. An ABC investigation has revealed that thousands of…
By Peter Hannam Air pollution from NSW’s five coal-fired power stations carry a “substantial health burden”, including leading to an estimated 279 deaths a year with thousands more to come…
By Michael Slezak and Penny Timms Thousands of hectares of state forest appear to have been logged or earmarked for logging illegally, an ABC investigation has found, amounting to what…
By Matthew Kelly A 2016 NSW EPA compliance report on Vales Point power station’s ash dam highlights numerous concerns about ongoing problems with the management of contaminated wastewater. Yet two…
Environmental Justice Australia was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Hon Murray Wilcox AO QC last week. Murray was a renowned lawyer and Federal Court judge. He had…
By Peter Hannam Pollution controls for major coal-fired power stations in NSW are so weak that they are comparable to “fairly under-developed third world countries”, a US energy expert says….
By Michael Slezak The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has revealed its new chairman as Dr Ian Poiner — who has until now led a different organisation, which has…
By Ben Potter Whitehaven Coal has buckled to activist shareholders and agreed to look at further disclosure of its climate related risks after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission warned…
By Jack Kerr It is 30 years since Victorian legislation was changed so illegal polluters could be sent to jail, and environmental lawyers like Brad Jessup believe it is time…
By Ruth Williams Industry super fund REST is facing a new federal court legal battle over claims it breached its trustee duties by failing to properly factor climate change-related risks…
Calls for tougher penalties for wildlife injuries Environmentalists are calling for tougher penalties for people who kill or injure protected wildlife. It comes after a New Zealand man was jailed…
By Australian Associated Press Pollution from coal-fired power plants in Victoria’s east is higher than acceptable according to international experts, as the environment authority reviews operating licences. Emissions of sulphur…
20 September 2018 By David Barnden Today ASIC released its report Climate risk disclosure by Australia’s listed companies. ASIC reiterated that the law requires the directors of a listed entity…
By Michael Slezak Adani’s plan to take 12.5 billion litres of water from a river in drought-stricken Queensland is a step closer to happening, according to environmental groups, after the…
By Joanne McCarthy THE NSW Government should reject a planned upgrade of Bayswater power station until owner AGL installs air pollution reduction technology that is standard in America, Europe, China and…
MEDIA RELEASE 28 August 2018 Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) welcomes the Victorian government announcement this morning that an independent Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) will be appointed to advise the Victorian…
