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With the construction industry generating more than 12 million tonnes of waste per annum, this year’s Get the Site Right campaign is reminding builders and developers that they have a critical role to play in reducing environmental impacts on waterways in NSW.

Minister for the Environment, Penny Sharpe MLC, has welcomed that the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has maintained its position that Australia’s major retailers, Coles and Woolworths, will not receive more time to move high-risk soft plastic stockpiles.

The NSW Government is taking proactive and precautionary action to help protect the Darling-Barka River as we move into cooler weather conditions.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has determined that it will treat the Darling-Barka fish kill as a “pollution incident” under the Protection of the Environment Administration Act.

The EPA has acted on community concerns about giant trees in Doubleduke State Forest on Bundjalung Country near Grafton, leading the Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) to voluntarily suspend tree harvesting there.

Sydney Water has agreed to pay $347,100 for environmental and community works after more than three million litres of untreated sewage overflowed into Arnotts Reserve and Powells Creek in Homebush, as well as the Parramatta River.

The Snowy Mountains Cloud Seeding Act 2004 enables Snowy Hydro Limited to conduct permanent cloud seeding operations within the Snowy Mountains in accordance with an Environmental Management Plan (EMP) approved by relevant Ministers.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is reminding operators based within or around National Parks to ensure robust controls are in place to protect the environment or prepare to face serious regulatory action.