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Veolia wins draft conditions from EPA in fight over waste transfer station
Construction 2025-07-31 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed. 

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90MW Summerville solar farm wins government approval
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-30 11:55 pm By Andy Sidler

A new solar farm tipped to power 36,000 homes in NSW has been approved by the government in just 30 business days.

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ICJ decision opens door to more innovative climate litigation, experts say
Analysis 2025-07-25 11:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A decision this week from the International Court of Justice holding countries have an obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse emissions will open the door to innovative climate litigation, experts told Lawyerly. 

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Activists win challenge to MACH’s Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion
Environment 2025-07-24 11:52 pm By Andy Sidler

The NSW Independent Planning Commission failed to consider the local impact of climate change when approving the expansion and extension of MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine, an appeals court has ruled.

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In fight over $1B gold mine, Aboriginal group worries Regis could ‘police’ conduct
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-23 11:55 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An Aboriginal corporation joined to Regis Resources’ fight against a decision related to its McPhillamys gold mine wants a costs capping order, concerned the mining company could otherwise “police” its conduct in the case.

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Whitehaven wins fight with enviro groups over climate risk docs
Energy & Natural Resources 2025-07-18 11:59 pm By Sam Matthews

Whitehaven Coal, which is locked in a fight with two conservation groups over the Winchester South coal mine in Queensland, has fought off an application for disclosure of internal climate risk documents created by a related entity.

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Class action failure won’t stem tide of climate litigation, experts say
Analysis 2025-07-16 11:26 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Legal experts say climate-related litigation will continue — and even increase — despite a judge’s dismissal this week of a class action by Torres Strait Islanders alleging the government was negligent in failing to protect them from the harmful effects of climate change.

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Torres Strait Islanders lose climate change class action against government
Class Actions 2025-07-15 3:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has found that the government owes no duty of care to Torres Strait Islanders to protect them against the effects of climate change, despite finding that there was a very real risk they could become “climate refugees”.

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$750M climate class action against Murray Darling Basin Authority heads to trial
Class Actions 2025-07-11 11:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A long-running class action against the Murray Darling Basin Authority over alleged negligent water management, including the failure to consider the impacts of climate change, will head to trial next month, just weeks after the court issues judgment in another closely watched climate class action. 

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Contradictor allowed in Optus appeal over telco tower development
Telecommunications 2025-07-10 11:59 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A judge has allowed a Central Coast resident to weigh in on Optus’ challenge to a council’s refusal to bless its plans to build a telecommunications tower, saying the council’s “commercial relationship” with the telco justified a contradictor.

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