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Companies in NSW must notify pollution incidents immediately and implement pollution incident response management plans.

ASIC alleged that Mercer made false claims about the sustainability status of its superannuation investment options.

The current Vegetation Management framework is focussed more on retention of trees than on broader environmental outcomes.

Australia's efforts to become the first country to commercially develop electricity production from heat mining continue to gather pace.

On 3 July 2009, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and state and territory leaders at the eighth Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting signed off on a package of energy efficient measures that Mr Rudd says will deliver a nationally consistent, cooperative approach to energy efficiency.

On 28 June 2023, at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk took the stage to announce the strategy, which is designed to "unlock the next resources boom...

Amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 have just been passed by the Federal Parliament, allowing reporting obligations to be transferred to an entity with financial control over a facility.

The offence of land pollution will be strengthened and made clearer through an amendment to the definition.

In recent years, the ACCU scheme has been criticized for a lack of transparency.

Investors and financiers and others who fall within the "related person" test should be aware of these amendments.

People who fail to notify of incidents that have caused, or may cause environmental harm may face significant fines.

The Government's delayed and much maligned emissions trading scheme is firmly back on the agenda after a joint announcement with the Australian Greens earlier today. In what it billed an "essential economic reform", the Government has proposed a two-stage mechanism that will impose an initial fixed price on carbon from 1 July 2012, before transitioning towards an emissions trading scheme within three to five years.

Listed threatened species are recognised as a matter of national environmental significance.

A key finding in both reports was the effectiveness of the operation of the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.

We are delighted to announce our partnership with the NSW Division of the Planning Institute of Australia. The partnership will involve providing a series of joint seminars at our offices over the forthcoming financial year and launching our new ‘Ask Gadens’ column in PIA’s monthly eNews.

On 8 July 2019, the Western Australian State Government (State Government) announced that it had released a new Implementation Plan (Plan).

Significant changes are proposed to the laws around the use of pastoral land.