Michael Nicholls 🏭 State environmental regulators are actively supporting industrial decarbonisation, but they are using these upgrades to force compliance on legacy site issues.
⚖️ A lawsuit does not need a final verdict to force a change in corporate behaviour. The Federal Court has formally dismissed Greenpeace’s high-profile greenwashing case against Woodside Energy by mutual consent.
🗣️ “Anything that blows or flows offsite is still your pollution.”
This stark warning from EPA Victoria Southwest Regional Manager Martha-Rose Loughnane clarifies exactly how regulators view boundary liability.
🛫 Executing a 54-source multi-media sampling programme on a remote island territory requires exceptional technical rigour. The Federal Government has released the latest legacy PFAS monitoring report for Norfolk Island International Airport.
![[15:30] wastemanagementreview.com.au | waste/innovation | constructive | NSW EPA awards $2.3M to 10 councils for circular economy solutions targeting problematic waste.](https://ienvi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ienvi_media_a5083b90346ed0f1.jpg)
👏 Congratulations to the 10 NSW councils securing $2.3 million to tackle our most hazardous and problematic waste streams. The NSW EPA has just awarded the final round of the Local Government Waste Solutions Fund.
🌊 Concrete channels are out. Dynamic ecological restoration is in. Congratulations to the North East Catchment Management Authority for the release of the House Creek Remediation Plan in Wodonga.
🕷️ A common spiderweb might be the most powerful biodiversity sampling tool on your next remote site assessment. Great to see @Mineral Resources and @Curtin University concluding a landmark three-year research partnership.
![[2026-04-20] WA startup Renewable Metals secures $12M CEFC-led funding to scale its zero-black-mass alkali battery recycling technology.](https://ienvi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ienvi_media_fdcb522d84a979f2.jpg)
🔋 Great to see West Australian startup Renewable Metals securing $12 million to address the secondary waste crisis in battery recycling.
🗺️ You can build a 1.2 GW wind and 3.2 GWh storage project without clearing a single hectare of native forest. Congratulations to Neoen Australia for officially referring their Bondo wind and storage project for federal EPBC Act assessment.
🧲 Capturing short-chain PFAS is one of the most stubborn challenges in groundwater remediation. A new Australian technology just achieved 98% removal. Congratulations to the research team at @Flinders University and @UNSW for developing a novel ‘nano-cage’ filter.