Environment

United Petroleum is locked in a dispute with VicRoads over the agency’s management of contamination at two service stations leased by UP along the Westgate Freeway. 

A community group has lost a legal challenge to a 50-60 km underground pipeline that will connect Santos’ $3.6 billion Narrabri gas project to the Hunter gas pipeline. 

The High Court is set to weigh in on whether climate impacts were a mandatory consideration in a decision to allow the expansion of Mach Energy's Mount Pleasant coal mine.

Veteran of the NSW bar Edward Muston SC has been sworn in as the newest judge of the state's Supreme Court, but before he was prosecuting high stakes environmental law cases, his plan was to be a jackaroo.

Landmark federal environmental law reforms that will up penalties for environmental breaches and fast-track approvals for renewable energy projects are set to pass the Senate.

A bid for approval of a seniors living complex on Sydney’s northern beaches has stalled after a court found a commissioner ignored mandatory considerations on the mistaken understanding that they conflicted with other planning requirements. 

Imposing a duty of care on the Australian government to protect Torres Strait Islanders from climate change would not involve the Federal Court in matters of political judgment, a failed class action has argued on appeal.

Waste management firm Veolia has agreed to pay $1 million after admitting that it failed to use required odour source controls for its landfill site in Hampton Park, Victoria.

A judge has made contempt findings against a real estate agent who attached discovered documents to emails that railed against alleged collusion between a local council and the EPA, but stopped short of finding he intimidated witnesses in a spat over a Ballarat development.

The government has tabled a suite of changes to the EPBC Act, including the introduction of a national environment protection agency with the power to make ‘stop work’ orders.