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Published on: 16 Jun 2026
The owner of an unlicensed quarry in Balala has been ordered to pay $190,000 by the Armidale Local Court for extracting gravel at more than two and fo...
EPA
Quarry at Balala
Published on: 12 Jun 2026
For the first time, all licensed landfills and sewage treatment plants (STPs) in NSW will be required to monitor and report PFAS in wastewater under n...
EPA
PFAS
Waste
Compactor on landfill
Published on: 11 Jun 2026
Veolia has been issued four penalty notices for multiple licence breaches at its Woodlawn Landfill in Tarago.
EPA
Landfill with bulldozer and compactor
Published on: 04 Jun 2026
The NSW EPA has completed initial PFAS residential bore testing in Narromine as part of the EPA’s voluntary opt-in Bore Water Screening Program that s...
EPA
PFAS
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Published on: 28 May 2026
A six-month sampling program has confirmed PFAS levels are below the latest ecological and recreational guidelines in the Central Coast’s Tuggerah Lak...
PFAS
EPA
EPA officer taking water sample
Published on: 28 May 2026
Woolworths Group and H2coco have been ordered to stop supplying two products after the NSW EPA found they were using banned plastic straws attached to...
EPA
Plastics
H2coco popper
Published on: 27 May 2026
Veolia Environmental Services Pty Ltd (Veolia) has been issued a Clean Up Notice after ammonia and other pollutants were detected in groundwater withi...
EPA
Pollution
Regulation
Aerial photo of Veolia's Woodlawn landfill at Tarago
Published on: 21 May 2026
A Newcastle company has been fined $30,000 for failing to maintain its plant equipment, resulting in sewage-like odours from its dairy processing faci...
EPA
Hexham Manufacturing odour incident
Published on: 18 May 2026
From Western Sydney to the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains, offenders who dump waste on public and private land are the focus of an EPA program.
EPA
Illegal dumping
Illegally dumped household rubbish