Environment

Chevron wants a "tight" timeline in a legal challenge related to its Gorgon liquified natural gas project, telling a judge that it's spending $40 million a month to keep staff ready for the project.

Electricity network provider Transgrid says network upgrades are needed to deal with the "unprecedented interest" in connecting new data centres and that centre operators should foot the bill. 

A judge has pushed off the hearing of an urgent application filed overnight against the NSW government to halt a brumby cull at the Yuraygir National Park, after the state did not appear at a 1 am hearing.

Environmental groups have slammed the country's first federal environmental standards, saying they were too vague to deliver the necessary protections for forests and endangered species. 

Clayton Utz has lured an environmental and planning law specialist from Norton Rose Fulbright to join the firm's Brisbane office.

Mardathoonera woman Raelene Cooper has taken Chevron and offshore petroleum regulator NOPSEMA to court over environmental approvals for a project for maintaining gas production from its Gorgon LNG project in Western Australia.

The Tamworth local council has lost its bid to inspect advice given by Baker McKenzie to the owner of the Hills of Gold wind farm in regional NSW as they fight over costs in a development consent dispute.

Fiducian Investment Management has copped a $7.3 million penalty after admitting that it made misleading representations about the ESG credentials of an investment fund, despite senior execs being warned about its exposure to fossil fuels.

The judge overseeing the federal government’s $2 billion PFAS lawsuit against 3M is grappling with how to move the "daunting" case forward, warning the parties "we'll all be retired if not dead by the time it comes to trial".

A court has tossed a lawsuit by the Wilderness Society alleging NOPSEMA failed to ensure Santos has the financial means to decommission its Reindeer gas field off the coast of Karratha in Western Australia.