Michael Nicholls 
⚡ We are approaching a tipping point where physical separation of forever chemicals will no longer be the default remediation strategy. For years, treating PFAS under the strict requirements of PFAS NEMP 3.0 has meant moving the problem from one place to another.
A $3.8 billion investment in automated environmental permitting has established a new benchmark for ecological assessments. On 31 March 2026, the Canadian Government launched its ‘A Force of Nature’ strategy to protect 30 per cent of its lands and waters by 2030.
🌊 Rising sea temperatures are chemically unlocking decades-old explosive residues. A new study from the University of Queensland has revealed a severe contamination legacy in the Solomon Islands.
Congratulations to Anita Doig and the team at WGA for award-winning research that challenges how we view laterite geology in northern Australia. Lateritic regolith profiles often look solid and impermeable. However, this recent work from Flinders University reveals the upper late
📹 “The CCTV clearly showed the offending vehicle which we were able to trace back to Perfect Touch, who were not so perfect in this case.”
This quote from EPA Victoria West Metropolitan Regional Manager Julia Gaitan highlights a major win for a frustrated landowner in Fraser Rise who set up a tempo
🚜 We cannot keep digging up PFAS hotspots and hoping landfill space lasts forever. A Flemish consortium led by Jan De Nul has successfully demonstrated an in-situ remediation technique that binds persistent forever chemicals directly within the soil matrix.
🧪 The regulatory focus on PFAS has officially moved beyond the “big three”. The Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has opened public consultation to schedule 14 industrial chemicals under IChEMS.
🌳 “The piecemeal acquisition of land as offsets for individual proposals is unlikely to be a sustainable regional strategy.” — WA EPA Chair Darren Walsh.
Groundwater modelling is often time-consuming. However, a new interpretable AI framework may soon replace months of traditional calibration with rapid, accurate predictions. When assessing multiple overlapping pollution sources, traditional contaminant transport models become com
🔥 “This incident should put everyone in the waste industry on notice that breaches of their permit conditions will have serious consequences.”
Those are the words of EPA Victoria following an $80,000 enforceable undertaking against Re.Cycle Operations Pty Ltd.