NEWS RELEASE Double standards, legal loopholes and ‘unexplained’ errors in Australia’s air pollution data are preventing communities from accessing reliable information about the poor quality air they’re breathing. Analysis by…
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MEDIA RELEASE Environmental lawyers are calling for the NSW Environment Minister to pause the assessment process for the coal ash dump expansion at AGL’s Bayswater power station until the outcomes of the coal ash inquiry are known, as hearings begin today. Recommendations from the NSW Parliament’s Inquiry into…
MEDIA RELEASE A coalition of health, environment and community groups has made a legal complaint to the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority calling for the body to investigate alleged breaches of the law by Delta Electricity after Vales Point power station reported huge increases in dangerous particle pollution, despite producing less…
MEDIA RELEASE A coalition of health, environment and community groups has made a legal complaint to the Victorian Environment Protection Authority calling for the body to investigate alleged breaches of the law by EnergyAustralia after Yallourn power station reported huge increases in dangerous particle pollution, despite producing less…
MEDIA RELEASE Analysis of just released data from the National Pollutant Inventory reveals coal-fired power stations are Australia’s biggest polluters once again with a number of power stations reporting significant increases in some of the most toxic pollutants. Coal-fired…
Regional Forest Agreements are intergovernmental agreements between the Commonwealth and the Western Australian, Tasmanian, New South Wales and Victorian governments. These agreements attempt to resolve competing demands on native forests…
MEDIA RELEASE The Victorian and Commonwealth governments have agreed to extend the five Victorian Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) for 10 years without taking into account the impacts of the catastrophic summer bushfires on native forests and wildlife. Ten-year extensions with 5–year reviews were formalised yesterday for the five RFAs covering…
MEDIA RELEASE Today, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments are expected to extend Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) for another 20 years in a move that environmental lawyers say will fail Victoria’s threatened species. Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) has released a…
MEDIA RELEASE New research revealing the health impacts of smoke pollution from the catastrophic summer bushfires shows the need for action to address existing air pollution, according law and policy…
MEDIA RELEASE Environmental lawyers have launched legal proceedings in a bid to uncover documents about the operations and maintenance of EnergyAustralia’s pollution control technology at Yallourn Power Station in the…
MEDIA ALERT Today, community group WOTCH is back in Victoria’s Supreme Court in a case to stop VicForests from logging areas of unburnt threatened species habitat, following the catastrophic bushfires. At…
MEDIA ALERT On Friday 7 February, Justice McMillan of the Victorian Supreme Court made orders that extend the interim halt on logging in unburnt forests to incorporate three further coupes…
MEDIA RELEASE The Morrison Government’s plan to keep NSW’s ageing Liddell Power Station open until 2026 won’t just cost taxpayers millions – it will also cost lives, according to lawyers…
MEDIA RELEASE Just days before the Siemens AGM in Germany, Australian experts in environmental law and corporate accountability have written to the President and CEO of Siemens, Mr Joe Kaeser,…
MEDIA RELEASE VicForests has been forced to immediately stop logging in several areas of threatened species habitat after the Victorian Supreme Court granted an injunction to citizen science group Wildlife…
MEDIA RELEASE 29 January 2020 Citizen scientists take VicForests to court to stop logging in threatened species habitat after catastrophic bushfires A community group of citizen scientists has launched a Supreme Court…
MEDIA RELEASE 3 October 2019 Authors of groundbreaking research into toxic coal ash waste in Australia are welcoming an Upper House Inquiry into coal ash waste, launched yesterday by the…
MEDIA RELEASE 16 August 2019 Environmental lawyers call for law change and an investigation into Adani’s ‘suitable operator’ status as Adani faces fresh prosecution at Brisbane’s Magistrates Court…
Read EJA’s Submission on AEMC’s Draft Rule Determination — National Gas Amendment (Northern Gas Pipeline – Derogation From Part 23) Rule 2019
Environment Ministers are likely to come together in late 2019 to make a decision whether or not to vary the national air pollution standards for sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen...
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MEDIA RELEASE New research released today reveals communities across the country are at serious risk from poorly managed coal ash waste – the toxic by-product of coal-fired power that accounts…
MEDIA RELEASE This year’s National Pollutant Inventory reveals soaring toxic emissions from coal-fired power stations and highlights the need for our ageing fleet of generators to be fitted with readily…
Environmental Justice Australia, formerly the Victorian Environment Defenders Office, welcomes today’s announcement by the federal ALP that it will restore funding to community environmental legal services across the country. Environmental…
Read the joint submission to the Draft Northern Victoria Water Resource Plan from Environment Victoria, Environmental Justice Australia, Environmental Farmers Network and Goulburn Valley Environment Group.
Peter Hannam, SMH A Labor government in NSW would expand national parks to protect koalas, curb feral horses, and step up climate change action including setting a target to source…
Dr James Whelan, the researcher and community organiser for a not-for-profit environmental legal practice, will brief Lake Macquarie councillors on Monday night on the remediation of two local power stations and their associated…
MEDIA RELEASE 31 January 2018 The final report from the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray Darling Basin confirms the failures of the Basin Plan, its implementation, and institutional oversight. The Royal Commission’s findings reinforce advice…
Max is the new campaigner in our Clean Air team at EJA. Max has joined us from the Australian Conservation Foundation, where he was a community organiser for three and…
VCAT considers the balance of native vegetation protection and farming under new planning rules On 16 January the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) published its decision and reasons in…
OPEN LETTER 30 January 2019 Dear Premier Berejiklian CC Leader of the Opposition, Michael Daley The NSW EPA has just concluded its review of pollution licences for three of the…
MEDIA RELEASE 30 January 2019 The NSW Environment Protection Authority has again given coal-fired power stations a licence to harm communities with toxic coal pollution after a disappointing decision to…
The NSW EPA completed the licence reviews for 3 NSW coal-fired power stations, Vales Point, Mt Piper and Eraring on the 23rd of January, 2019 and determined the licences would…
MEDIA RELEASE A case to stop logging in over thirty areas of old-growth forest in Victoria’s East Gippsland will be heard by the state’s Supreme Court today. Lawyers from Environmental…
At 10.30am on Monday 10 December, the trial will commence in the case Fauna and Flora Research Collective Inc v The Secretary to DELWP and VicForests, before Justice Keogh in…
Health concerns about coal-fired power stations have prompted calls for air pollution monitoring in the New South Wales central west city of Lithgow, with doctors saying the scale of potential…
An independent study released today has found that air pollution produced by New South Wales coal-fired power stations cause 279 deaths in the state every year. The study of the…
