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NSW would be better protected against the environmental risks of industrial chemicals under proposed changes open for public consultation that will align NSW with a national approach.

Participants in the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme (HRSTS) must discharge only when a river register has been issued for a given river block, under Clause 20 of the HRSTS Regulation.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has launched four further prosecutions in the NSW Land and Environment Court against Newcrest’s Cadia Holdings Pty Ltd’s (Cadia) for alleged air pollution and solid particle exceedances from the Cadia gold mine.

A new real-time water monitoring system has gone live in Camp Gully Creek at Metropolitan Collieries’ Helensburgh coal mine site following a NSW Environment Protection Authority investigation of wastewater discharges from the site in 2022.

Radioactive waste has special storage, handling and treatment requirements.

In addition to the general regulatory requirements relating to waste, the following regulatory requirements apply to waste lead acid batteries.

The EPA exempts certain types of waste from some or all tracking requirements under certain circumstances.

Neighbourhood noise, such as noise from alarms, noisy equipment and parties, can be very annoying. Find out how you can prevent noise from being an unpleasant issue and be a good neighbour yourself.

Our 5 divisions, along with our Corporate Affairs Branch, focus on the various aspects of environmental protection and regulation and prevention of human harm.

Newcastle City Council has plead guilty in Newcastle Local Court and been fined $110,000 and ordered to pay costs for water pollution following an incident at Summerhill Waste Management Facility (SWMF) in 2021.