Michael Nicholls 
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Your closed or “low-risk” contaminated site file might have just reopened. The Heads of EPA Australia and New Zealand have officially released Version 3.0 of the PFAS National Environmental Management Plan.
PFAS NEMP 3.1 (May 2026) updates drinking water PFOS limits, freshwater PFOS ecological DGVs and marine interim values. Soil, recreational water and most investigation logic are unchanged. Here is what practitioners need to re-screen.
🤖 “We have seen an order of magnitude improvement in the efficiency of the tasks that models can do over the last year or two, and I think we need a couple more orders of magnitude before this gets truly interesting.”
Amazon Senior Vice President of AI, Peter DeSantis, delivered this sobering reali
📊 Static PDF environmental reports no longer meet the bar for EIA submissions in the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority has finalised its new Guidance on biodiversity data, alongside updated factor guidelines for terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
How law firms, property managers and acquirers scope environmental due diligence before settlement: desktop review, PSI, vendor report critique and red-flag advice.
🤖 “The competitive advantage does not come from having AI. It comes from what the AI has to work with.”
Stuart Reynish at Valona Intelligence makes a point worth sitting with as frontier models converge in raw capability.
🚧 Operating without an environment protection licence is a high-risk commercial gamble that courts are increasingly penalising. The NSW Environment Protection Authority has successfully prosecuted an unlicensed quarry operator in Balala, resulting in $190,000 in fines and legal costs.
🤖 “We look forward to working closely with the SpaceX team to advance our frontier AI capabilities.”
Those words from Cursor chief executive Michael Truell reportedly mark the largest venture-backed startup acquisition in history.
Scaling artificial intelligence from a series of disjointed experiments into a core engine for business value is the defining challenge for professional services firms right now.
📊 Property due diligence in Victoria has just become more transparent with the release of the Environmental Priority Sites Certificate. This new, fully automated tool provides a clear assessment of whether a property is located within 250 metres of a site listed on the EPA Priority Sites Register.