Enforceable undertakings media releases

Enforceable undertakings are voluntary, legally binding, written agreements between the EPA and a company or individual that is alleged to have breached environmental legislation.

The agreement includes commitments by the company or individual, in response to an alleged breach, that are designed to improve environmental outcomes and prevent similar incidents occurring in the future.

Latest enforceable undertakings media releases

Greater glider (Petauroides volans)
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has extended a Stop Work Order applying to parts of Tallaganda State Forest, near Captains Flat.
Sampling contaminated soil with sample bottle and person in disposable gloves
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has issued Snowy Hydro Limited with a Clean Up Notice to reduce suspected environmental and water impacts from contaminated drill and blast spoil placed in the Kosciuszko National Park.
Pollution discharge, Cooks River
Primo Foods must pay $150,000 towards community projects in a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) after wastewater from its Western Sydney facility allegedly polluted the Cooks River.
Cleared land in Coopernook State Forest
Forestry Corporation of NSW must pay $500,000 towards four environmental projects in a legally binding Enforceable Undertaking with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) following the alleged illegal harvesting of 17 protected trees in Coopernook State Forest on the NSW mid-North Coast.
Oily floodwaters on street in Kurnell, with cleanup truck
Ampol must pay $700,000 towards four community projects in a legally binding agreement with the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA). This comes after more than 9,000 litres of diesel mixed with floodwaters and spilled from its Kurnell fuel transfer terminal in April last year.