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  • Climate Change
    • Federal Treasurer called on to stop carbon price rorting of power bills
    • Support for NSW legislation to stop new fossil fuel power stations
    • Are conservative governments aiming for a climate policy-free zone?
    • Clean Coal Spin Hits The Dustbin
    • Anti-carbon price ads ‘morally repugnant’
    • PM Gillard's Low Carb Breakfast Challenge
    • Climate Change Package a 'game changer'
    • Sydney Sprawls, Global Warming Worsens
    • CLIMATE ACTION POLICY BUNGLE MUST BE FIXED
    • Federal Climate Change Policy Scrutiny
    • Top 10 Policies for Building a Green Ecnomy
    • Gillard Climate Announcement: that’s not a climate change policy
    • SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL GREEN FILMS
    • Business Snatches Initiative on Climate Change
    • The Killing of GreenPower?
    • BEACH SMART OR BEACH STUPID?
    • RUDD DIRTIES GREEN POWER
    • TEC'S EBP WINS CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP AWARD
    • POLLUTERS PROFIT, PUBLIC PAYS
    • Climate White Paper- Rudd Lets Polluters Off the Hook
    • Report: Australian 2020 Target Announcement Could Scuttle International Climate Negotiations
    • Australian Property Giants Continue Aggressive Emissions Cuts Ahead of 2020 Target Announcement
    • Green-business alliance highlights the need to enable voluntary carbon action alongside CPRS targets
    • Smart Investment Can Successfully Reduce Australia’s Greenhouse Emissions: Building Australia Fund
    • Economic and greenhouse policies should work together in green nation building
    • Not Again: Australia Cannot Be Responsible For Failed Climate Talks
    • Commercial Property on Collision Course with Climate Change
    • Carbon Offset Watch Ranks Offset Providers: helps consumers make the right choice
    • Carbon Offset Watch to Spotlight Green Claims
    • Emissions Trading – making or breaking Australian green history?
    • Greenwash - curses and solutions
    • Fight Against Greenwash Strengthened by TEC & AANA Anouncements
    • Freight Transport & Climate Change - Industry Guidance Released
    • Light Green Start To Emissions Trading
    • Freight industry has major greenhouse challenge ahead
    • Electricity Sector Using Fear Tactics to Derail Emissions Trading Scheme
    • Environment Groups Ramp Up Emissions Trading Campaign
    • National Guidelines A Welcome Ally In The Fight Against Business Greenwash
    • Green Businesses should be Supported, not Scorned
    • Climate Change Action and Costa's Mickey Mouse Economics
    • Property Groups Unite to Tackle Climate Change
    • Garnaut on Emissions Trading Makes Sense
    • Key Tests for Emissions Trading
    • Office Towers Go Green
    • Greenhouse and energy efficiency tests for NSW privatisation
    • Nation’s economy will thrive with emissions trading
    • QANTAS Tree Planting: don't use dubious carbon offsets
    • Offset or Off Put? The carbon offset market report
    • Greenhouse target debate needs to be resolved
    • Call for no carbon indemnity
    • Premier Raises Bid for Climate but More to Do
    • States set emissions trading deadline of 2010
    • 30% greenhouse cut call to parties
    • Premier's leadership awards
    • PM’s emissions trading move – wedge or winner?
    • Stern Report Highlights Howard’s Climate Shame
    • Getting to grips with the fuel crisis
    • The Crucial Role of 'Existing Buildings'
    • Are we facing a warmer summer?
    • Carr should lead on greenhouse
    • Carr's greenhouse plan - a poisoned chalice?
  • Green Energy Action
    • Energy - National Electricity Market - Reports
      • Reports and Submissions
    • Energy -National Electricity Market - Advocacy
      • What are we doing and why?
      • SHEDDING LIGHT ON POWER
      • New push on National Electricity Market
      • Environmental and Social Objectives for the NEM
    • Energy -Saving Energy -Appliances
    • Energy -Saving Energy -Efficient Buildings
    • Energy -Saving Energy -Networks Managing Demand
      • Networks Managing Demand
    • Energy -Saving Energy -Energy Savings Fund
    • National energy issues
      • National Electricity Market (NEM)
    • National Electricity Market (do not use)
      • National Electricity Market
    • Green Electricity
      • A Renewable Guarantee For NSW
    • Energy efficiency
    • Energy News & Reports
      • HOW TO SAVE $227M IN POWER GRID
      • CONSUMERS DEMAND POWER COMES CLEAN
      • THREE ELECTRICITY REFORMS FOR COAG
      • PM’s energy reforms on the right track
      • THE NETWORK STRIKES BACK
      • NSW RENEWABLES PLAN A GOOD MOVE
      • ENERGY MARKET REFORM: ALL CHOICE, NO OBLIGATIONS
      • How it works slide Pack
      • ELECTRICITY PRICES A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES
      • Time's up for energy waste and power industry profiteering
      • Electricity prices - it's not just the carbon tax
      • NSW GOVERNMENT UPS THE ANTE IN ITS ANTI GREEN CAMPAIGN
      • War on green energy schemes condemned
      • CARBON TAX MISUSED
      • NSW government, NEM and Newspoll on energy costs and efficiency
      • First report card on Australia's electricity system
      • Powerlink's poles of gold
      • Carbon price makes up only 8% of skyrocketing electricity costs
      • Aussies wake up to energy efficiency
      • Energy regulator confirms network ‘gold plating’ is the main cause of rising electricity bills
      • Solar tarrif should feed in to long term plan
      • Don't dump the solar industry with Solar Bonus Scheme
      • LOWER ELECTRICITY BILLS AS AUSTRALIAN ENERGY MARKET COMMISSION EDGES TOWARDS REFORM
      • THE TRUTH ABOUT NSW ENERGY PRICE HIKES
      • Summer Black-outs, Higher Prices Ahead for Victorians
      • Urgent Inquiry Needed into Victorian Electricity Prices
      • SOLAR SCHEME CLIPPED BUT NOT ECLIPSED
      • NEW ERA AHEAD FOR SMART, CLEAN ENERGY AND BILLIONS IN SAVINGS
      • BILLIONS WASTED ON ENERGY GRID
      • BIG GREEN BONUS FROM SOLAR SCHEME
      • LATEST ELECTION ENERGY DEBATE
      • Federal climate policy: cheap and green if efficiency lessons learned
      • ENERGY BLOWOUT REWARDS BIG SPENDERS
      • DIRTY SECRET POWER BUSINESS
      • Energy efficiency can deliver while Rudd flounders on climate
      • CLIMATE CHANGE CREDIBILITY GAP WIDENS
      • Call for $1 billion a year energy savings
      • Energy Efficiency Roundtable Communique
      • IPART REPRIMANDED
      • IPART MUST GET WITH THE PROGRAM
      • IPART FAILS TO CURB POWER PRICE HIKES
      • PEOPLE POWER FOR ENERGY REFORM
      • Victoria Must Invest In Green Jobs Now
      • NO CPRS - SO WHY ARE POWER BILLS GOING UP SO MUCH?
      • Vic power bills and CO2 emissions to soar
      • Energy regulator approves higher electricity bills not efficiency
      • ENERGY MINISTERS APPROVE SPIRALLING POWER BILLS AND EMISSIONS
      • Energy ministers to feed emissions spiral in CPRS void?
      • Energy ministers to blame for price rises
      • NSW GREEN ENERGY LEAP TRIPPED BY RUDD’S CPRS
      • FOSSIL ENERGY MARKET BLOCKS CLIMATE ACTION
      • CONSUMERS ROBBED OF GREEN POWER
      • SKEPTICS KEEP STOKING COAL
      • PROFLIGATE ENERGY MARKET NURTURES POLLUTERS
      • ELECTRIC COWBOYS BLOCK ENERGY REFORM
      • ENERGY MINISTERS PUT BRAKE ON CLIMATE ACTION
      • ENERGY BILL NEEDS NEW RUNNING SHOES
      • POSITIVE NSW ENERGY TARGET
      • NEGA-WATTS NOT MEGA-WATTS
      • BLACK DAYS FOR ENERGY CONSUMERS
      • REGULATOR FIDDLES WHILE CONSUMERS BURN
      • AUSTRALIAN ENERGY TRANSFORMATION OR TOAST?
      • NSW SET TO LEAD THE WAY ON ROOF-TOP SOLAR
      • Delays for the NSW Government Energy Efficiency Scheme Condemned
      • QLD and SA Consumers Sold Out on Efficiency, Greenhouse Emissions
      • Light Bulb Phase-Out: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
      • Solar Panels Threatened by Tariff Rip-off
      • Electricity Industry Carbon Rip-off in the Wings
      • The $8 Billion Electricity Swindle - Energy Australia Wants To Rob Consumers, Worsen Climate Change
      • NSW Energy Savings Plan Win For Environment, Bills
      • Government Turns The Light Out On Energy Consuming Bulbs
      • Is your Green Electricity accredited?
      • Federal Govt Blunders in Dumbing Down Smart Meters
      • NSW electricity future - Jeff Angel on impact statement
      • NSW Consumers Sold Out on Efficiency, Greenhouse Emissions
      • Watchdog supports TEC complaint on GreenPower
      • A Green Light for Australian business
      • Baby steps on energy efficiency but....Giant leap back for environment
      • Green Electricity Watch makes it easy to make the switch
      • Smart Meters to Harness Massive Energy, Greenhouse Savings
      • Owen Inquiry only half an answer
      • Pass or Fail? Owen Electricity Report Under Spotlight
      • Federal Power Grab Threatens States’ Greenhouse Action
      • Australia to Dump Environment and Social Goals in Power Shake Up
      • Qld GreenPower sellout?
      • Debnam's Solar Pledge a Goer
      • Climate Action to be Election Clincher - but Fossil Fuel Lobby Still Dragging the Chain
      • Use Your Power to Go Green: How you can help change climate change today
      • Renewable Energy Target Good Step Forward
      • Power Blackouts threat – Iemma Govt makes it worse
      • Renewable Energy Target Launched as Key Election Campaign Issue
      • Greenhouse Scheme Extension Falls Short as Emissions Spiral
      • Emission trading on the agenda – time to move ahead
      • NSW must stand up to Federal attack on clean energy
      • Green Power Opt-in a Step in Right Direction
      • Energy Bill Shame for Federal Government
      • Trees for energy - a greenhouse and forests policy blunder
      • Energy smart buildings could save Sydney CBD from spiralling greenhouse emissions
      • Delta Electricity moves on north coast forests for furnace
      • Greenhouse gases blow out - again
      • Key consumer group attacks Sydney's crazy electricity expansion plans
      • NORTH POWER FAILS GREENHOUSE TEST - AGAIN
      • Dead koala electricity - a political hot potato
      • Greenhouse benchmarks take root
      • NSW greenhouse regulations welcomed
      • Energy Price Hike Shows We Use Too Much
      • Energy Black-out Threat - Whose Fault?
      • Green Groups Slam Energy Planners for Ignoring Demand Management
      • Air-conditioner Levy Set to Cool Energy Demand
      • Giant Polluting Power Station Gets Government Help
      • Dinosaur Developer Meriton Shirks Energy Standards
      • More Coal Power or Green Energy Plan? Challenge to Premier
      • Redbank rejection - right decision
      • Survey Embarrasses Hypocritical Electricity Companies
      • Transgrid White Elephant Must Go
      • Taxpayers Told to Pay Millions for Unnecessary Power Line
      • Taxpayers Told to Pay Millions for Unnecessary Power Line
      • Networks Throw Our Good Money After Bad
      • Greenhouse trading - not dead
      • Electricity Companies Off the Hook for Failing to Save, Again
      • Greenhouse Amendment for this Week's Energy Bills
      • Black Boxed Energy Bills: Unconstitutional, Anti-Environment
      • Historic Coalition Calls for Urgent Electricity Reforms
      • Environment Groups Call on NSW Government to Rule Out Dirty Coal
      • Secret Numbers on New Coal Must Be Released
      • Coal Power Bad News for NSW Consumers
      • Iemma Government has to go further on no coal power policy
      • Massive Energy Surplus on Tap for NSW
      • A Renewable Guarantee for NSW - or lose our wind power
    • Energy Projects (do not use)
      • Energy Savings Funds
      • Green Power
  • Natural Areas
    • Nat Areas - Coastal Protection - General
      • TEC Coastal Reports
    • Natural Areas Coastal Protection South Coast
      • Killalea - Community opposes sell-off of precious public land
      • South Coast/Illawarra
    • Natural Areas Coastal Protection Central Coast
      • Central Coast
    • Natural Areas Coastal Protection Lower Hunter
      • Lower Hunter
    • Natural Areas Land Clearing
      • Living Landscapes
    • Natural Areas Offsets
      • Offsets for environmental damage
    • Natural Areas Rivers Rescue
      • Don't Frack The Gas Out Of Us!
      • Longwall Coal Mining and Rivers
      • Snowy River Campaign
      • State of the River reports
    • Natural Areas News & Reports
      • NSW Land Clearing Laws – something stinks
      • BHP Billiton mine plan gets go ahead to damage Sydney’s water supply catchment
      • NSW’S ENVIRONMENT CRED ON NOTICE
      • HOW TO DESTROY A FOREST FOREVER
      • DISMAL MINING IMPACTS OUTRAGE
      • DIRTY COAL UNDERMINES NSW WATER SUPPLY
      • Dirty coal tactics undermine sydney water supply
      • NSW Farmers misinformation on Native Veg Act reaches new heights
      • Gujarat failures send danger signals for NSW Government and water catchments
      • GREEN LIGHT FOR MINING SPELLS BLACK DAY FOR NATIVE HABITATS
      • NATIVE HABITAT BATTLE IS ALL ABOUT BIODIVERSITY
      • NSW Farmers ‘licence to bulldoze’
      • ILLEGAL HABITAT DESTRUCTION - a challenge for O’Farrell government
      • Environment Groups gear up for land clearing law fight
      • Campaign to protect native veg laws launched
      • Native Veg Law review - excuse to boost land clearing
      • O’Farrell Government’s Green Reputation Shattered
      • MP’s call encourages breaches of land clearing laws
      • Longwall mine backflip raises serious questions about NSW government’s planning promises
      • NSW Mining and Gas Policy – a disappointment
      • 'WE CAN COEXIST' - MINING MYTH BLASTED
      • Coal miner must be prosecuted for failure to reveal political donations
      • Water catchment gas drilling should be called off
      • COWBOY MINING INDUSTRY GETS THE ELECTION IT DESERVES
      • Wyong Coal Mine Rejection Good for Water Security
      • NO DAM GIVES THE HUNTER WATER MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY
      • MINING GIANT CAVES TO ENVIRONMENT
      • Govt Must Act on Polluting Gas and Damaging Coal in Sydney's Water Catchment
      • Mining Companies Hide Threat to Sydney's Water Supply
      • THREATENED SPECIES DUMPED FOR DEVELOPER RULES
      • OIL SPILL RISK IN AUSTRALIA
      • ICONIC SNOWY RIVER E-COLLAPSE
      • STONER’S DOPEY STANCE ON FRAGILE FLORA
      • BHPB Ducks Public Accountability
      • LAND CLEARING LAWS CHANGE – NO WAY
      • REES MUST SOLVE SNOWY RIVER CRISIS
      • BIG MISTAKE: TILLEGRA DAMNED
      • SHAMELESS SNOWY HYDRO EXPOSED
      • SNOWY FLOWS WON’T DAMN TOURISM
      • CATCHMENT STILL ENDANGERED
      • GARRETT SHOWS MUSCLE
      • SNOWY SQUEEZED TO DEATH
      • PLANNING FIASCO IN LOWER HUNTER
      • Sydney Water Awards Helping Miner's Greenwash
      • Keneally Must Reject Offensive Mining Proposal
      • Hawkesbury–Nepean River Gets a Much Needed Helping Hand
      • Budget Good for Rivers & Environment, But Misses The Next Steps
      • Coal Mining 'on Steroids' - New Mines Under Sydney's Water Supply
      • BHP Billiton Claims Mask Years of Damage
      • BHPB's ‘Zero Harm’ Policy Sham - Premier Must Act
      • Snowy River Flows Threatened Unless Snowy Water Licence Changed
      • BHPB Coal Mining to Further Wreck Water Supply Catchment
      • 24 Animal Species Under Threat from Longwall Mining
      • North coast threatened by development land grab
      • BHP Billiton bullies to weaken environmental safeguards
      • Mining lobby group engaging in doublespeak
      • Devastating longwall damage exposed
      • Pull back from rivers and swamps mining inquiries told
      • Our Forests, Our Future: A question of politics?
      • Shoalhaven on notice but more controls needed
      • Tree vandals deserve swift prosecution
      • Waratah Rivulet Rally Postponed
      • Coffs Harbour surf event to wreck dune
      • BHP longwall consultation rort
      • Longwall information clamped
      • More river damage caused by DPI
      • Miners and government in longwall denial
      • Coalition's Vision - a bulldozed landscape
      • New Report: longwall mining destroying NSW rivers
      • TEC supports more Gosford CBD consult
      • Nepean longwall threat
      • Bega environment suffers for development on the South Coast
      • Lower Hunter Strategy lacks sustainability
      • Private loggers to self-regulate?
      • Sensitive south coast sites should be off limits
      • Snowy backflip a victory for the community and the environment
      • Government and Opposition hear coastal demands
      • 160 groups reject coastal strategies
      • Coastal strategy greenwash exposed
      • Clearing compliance actions supported
      • Minister for Illegal Clearing
      • Snowy River loses out
      • Snowy River loses out
      • Snowy River flows under threat
      • Parks for Profit - economic rationalism threatens future of National Parks
      • Domestic Cattle Trashing Blue Mountains National Park
      • Kilometres of coastal land being ploughed up for millionaires' playgrounds - local communities ignor
      • NSW COMMUNITY APPEAL TO PREMIER TO PROTECT THE COAST
      • WORLD HERITAGE RECOMMENDATION FOR SOUTH COAST LAKES
      • NSW ENVIRONMENT GROUP CONDEMNS NATIONAL PARKS BOSS FOR BOWING TO 4WD BULLY BOYS
      • NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL - DAMNED IF THEY DO AND DAMNED IF THEY DON'
      • WARNING BELLS SOUNDED OVER ALARMING SPECULATIVE GROWTH IN COASTAL POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
      • Drinking water protection ? Delayed!
      • NSW GOVERNMENT COASTAL REPORT POINTS TO COUNCIL FAILURES
      • PORT MACQUARIE HIGH RISES BLITZ THE COAST WHILE PLANNING REFORMS GET DELAYED
      • FERAL HORSE HERITAGE STUDY ROAD TO RUIN FOR NATIONAL PARKS
      • Coastal Development Councils Face Backlash
      • Leading climate policy expert to give Milo Dunphy Memorial Lecture
      • National Party likely to lose Federal seat of Richmond
      • BHP leads attack on water catchments
      • Control of Local Council Planning and Development Excesses taken out of Developer's Hands
      • COASTAL PACKAGE WELCOMED
      • Proposed increase in Kangaroo Exploitation leads to commercialisation of all wildlife
      • State Government urged to intervene on Albion Park subdivision proposal
      • GOVERNMENT CALLED ON TO STOP SURGE OF LAND CLEARING ON NSW COAST
      • BUSHLAND CLEARING MINISTER GETS NO CONFIDENCE VOTE
      • Metropolitan water supply under threat
      • Failure of government report into Dendrobium mine
      • Coal mining and catchments battle goes cyber
      • URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO STOP FURTHER SPREAD OF NOXIOUS SEAWEED FROM LAKE CONJOLA
      • NSW GOVERNMENT URGED TO CALL IN GIANT ARTIFICIAL POLLUTION LAKE AT BALLINA
      • Speculators and Developers eating away at Taree Coast
      • HASTINGS COUNCIL - REQUEST FOR STATE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION AND INVESTIGATION
      • STRONG SUPPORT FOR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR NSW COAST
      • GREEN UMBRELLA FOR COAST ESSENTIAL
      • WEST YAMBA DEVELOPMENT PLANS
      • MAITLAND GREENING PLAN A BLUEPRINT FOR BUSHLAND CLEARING
      • Hunting Bill Should be Ditched
      • 27 international, national and NSW groups oppose game bill
      • Game Bill, Botched
      • National parks next target for hunters
      • ENVIRONMENT, ANIMAL WELFARE AND GUN CONTROL ALLIANCE SAYS MP's VIEWS ON BLOOD SPORT BILL WILL COUNT
      • CENTRAL COAST ENVIRONMENT GROUPS TALK STATE ELECTION STRATEGY
      • TWEED COUNCILLORS SHOULD STEP DOWN
      • Recreational Hunters' Dispersal Of Feral Pigs Should Make Scrapping The Blood-Sport "Game" Bill A Pr
      • Critical Habitat, Cyanide and Little Penguin
      • Rescue for Coastal Lakes
      • Spencerville Controversy Highlights Need For Councils To Abandon Developer-Driven Planning
      • Coastal Lakes Recommendations Should Lead Way
      • NSW Government Urged to Call in Mollymook Beach Development and Review all Shoalhaven's Plans
      • Government Urged to Rewrite Development Strategy to Stop Destruction of Hallidays Point
      • SHELLHARBOUR COUNCIL INACTION CAUSING DESTRUCTION OF RARE PLANT
      • Tweed's grandiose high rise schemes labelled "deluded and one-dimensional"
      • TWEED"S "SALT" BEACH DEVELOPMENT MORE LIKE "SHIFTING SANDS" SAYS ENVIRONMENT GROUP
      • Land Clearing Audit reveals maladministration
      • Coast law welcomed
      • TANK PADDOCK DECISION A RECIPE FOR ONGOING CONFLICT
      • Carr Government Fails Environmental Hot Issues Test
      • A great day for old growth forests
      • NSW GOVERNMENT WIMPS OUT AS TWEED APPLIES ZERO TOLERANCE TO ITS NATURAL COASTLINE
      • Shoalhaven Council's Development-At-Any-Cost Stance Results in Environmental Disaster in Jervis Bay
      • COSTA'S RAIL CUTS A CRUEL BLOW TO LONG SUFFERING COMMUTERS
      • GOVERNMENT URGED TO CALL IN SOUTH WEST ROCKS SUBDIVISIONS AS PLANNING IGNORED BY KEMPSEY COUNCIL
      • ENVIRONMENT GROUP URGES PLANNING MINISTER TO VISIT MICALO ISLAND TO SEE WHY MASSIVE PRAWN FARM PROPO
      • BOURNDA SUBDIVISION COULD SET PRECEDENT FOR URBAN SPRAWL ON RURAL LANDS
      • NATURAL COASTLINE BEING WIPED OUT BY DEVELOPER GREED AND GOVERNMENT INACTION
      • COSTA'S RAIL PLANS FAIL TO ADDRESS SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT CRISIS
      • BECTON'S BYRON BEACH FRONT SUBURB REPRESENTS OVERDEVELOPMENT OF FRAGILE SITE
      • Local And State Governments Urged to Adopt North Coast Initiative to Stop Excessive and Illegal Land
      • ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF TWEED'S KINGS FOREST SITE URGENTLY REQUESTED
      • INTERVENTION NEEDED TO STOP DEVELOPER GREED UNDERMINING WYONG'S LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY
      • Action Needed Now to Stop Coastal Land Clearing Epidemic
      • TAREE COUNCIL'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH CONCRETE GIVES KISS OF DEATH TO NORTH REDHEAD
      • NATIVE VEGETATION DEAL FRACTURE
      • CONSERVATIONISTS SLAM STATE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN LAKE MACQUARIE COUNCIL LEP
      • SHOALHAVEN TREE MANAGEMENT PLAN A RECIPE FOR CITY WIDE TREE SLAUGHTER
      • Brigalow blockade receives peak group support
      • ENVIRONMENT GROUPS REJECT DEVELOPERS' ATTEMPT TO CONTROL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT
      • NSW Government's SEPP 71 and land clearing changes positive steps for coastal protection
      • Kempsey Mayor called on to take action to combat over-development in her Shire
      • TWEED VOTERS URGED REJECT DEVELOPERS IN GREEN SHEEP'S CLOTHING AT COUNCIL ELECTIONS
      • Government urged to replace Hastings Council's "Kindergarten-standard" development plans
      • AREA 14 - HASTINGS OVERDEVELOPMENT A HOT ISSUE
      • TEC to meet Hastings Mayor on Area 14
      • Keep Local Councils Out Of Developers' Clutches
      • RICHMOND COUNCIL SHOULD BE PROSECUTED OVER DYING LAKE
      • FEDERAL LABOR PROMISE TO PROTECT COAST WELCOMED BY NSW ENVIRONMENT GROUP
      • NSW Environment Group urges Coffs Harbour Council and State Government to protect Corindi Beach Wetl
      • TAREE COUNCIL'S NEW PLAN TURNS HALLIDAYS POINT INTO UGLY SUBURBIA
      • Government Department Questioned ovre Alleged North Coast Illegal Land Clearing
      • Government Department must take strong action to Stop Land Clearing in NSW Coastal Zone
      • CARAVAN RESORT PROPOSAL ALONG SCENIC RIVER FRONT IN SOUTH WEST ROCKS SLAMMED
      • NSW GOVERNMENT URGED TO DIRECT TAREE COUNCIL'S PLANNING
      • LAKE MACQUARIE COUNCIL URGED TO REJECT BONNELLS BAY REZONING
      • Eurobdoalla's Unsold And Empty Properties Shows Need To Stop New Urban Sprawl And Over-Developments
      • ENVIRONMENT GROUP URGES PREMIER TO SAVE KEMPSEY'S HERITAGE-LISTED POINT PLOMER
      • TWEED COUNCILLOR FUNDING SHOWS SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL DEVELOPER DONATIONS ARE
      • TWEED COUNCILLOR ELECTION FUNDING QUESTIONS
      • TAREE COUNCIL'S LOSS OF REZONING POWERS SHOULD END THEIR DEVELOPER-DICTATED PLANNING
      • SOUTH COAST MAJOR DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM BEST CHANCE TO END DEVELOPER-DICTATED PLANNING
      • TAREE COUNCIL DELETES NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
      • Shoalhaven Election Donations - new law call
      • New planning template will lower environmental standards
  • Healthy Green Living
    • Toxic Chemicals City Planning
      • Chemical action plan
      • Pollution Licences Scandal
    • Toxic Chemicals Schools/Child Care
    • Toxic Chemicals Indoor Air Pollution
      • Clear the Air
    • Toxic Chemicals Right-To-Know
      • Notification a vital step in reducing people pollution
    • Toxic Chemicals News & Reports
      • CREDIBLE GREEN LABELLING CRISIS
      • Out of the laboratory and on to our plate
      • State laws fail communities on toxic leaks
      • Alarm over release of toxic air pollutant in Northern Beaches
      • Dioxin contamination in Sydney Harbour
      • Cotton Industry's Good Neighbour Policy Cold Comfort
      • Tussle over Tussock - there's life after Frenock
      • Environment groups and cattle farmers united
      • Lead threats to children set to increase
      • Gunnedah clouded in toxic chemicals
      • Cotton industry acting like thugs in Dubbo cotton decision
      • Australian children being exposed to increasing levels of DDT in breastmilk
      • School bus sprayed with pesticide in Narrowmine
      • Giant leap forward for pesticide management in NSW
      • Are we poisoning our children's future?
      • Greens condemn Federal Cuts to National Pollutant Inventory
      • Greens warn Growers of Gene food dangers
      • Pesticide controls and testing inadequate for all farmers
      • Diet survey questioned
      • Untested pesticide looms over Australian backyards
      • Inquiry urged to ensure safety of local residents and environment during destruction of toxic waste
      • Cotton industry self-regulation fails to protect community & environment from toxic chemicals
      • Industry resorts to take-over tactics to silence the opposition
      • Country delegation warns of pesticide disaster
      • Cotton industry's secret anti-environment campaign plan released
      • Government ignores overwhelming community concern about pesticide pollution at it's peril
      • National Strategy for Agricultural & Veterinary Chemicals - a wish list with no substance
      • DEADLY SPILL HIGHLIGHTS NEED TO BAN TOXIC PESTICIDES
      • Call to ban toxic organophosphates
      • Community must be protected from pesticide drift
      • ENVIRONMENT GROUP CALLS FOR URGENT RESPONSE TO FERTILISER SCARE
      • ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS DEMAND INTRODUCTION OF FERTILISER REGULATIONS
      • LOCAL SCHOOLS TO BENEFIT FROM SAFER PESTICIDE PROGRAM
      • ENVIRONMENTAL, MEDICAL AND GROWER GROUPS CALL ON MINISTER TO PROTECT CROPS FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE
      • HOUSEHOLD PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS LINKED TO CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA
      • TOXIC ACCIDENTS SOAR DURING SPRING
      • SAFER SOLUTIONS TO PROTECT CHILDREN
      • ALARM RAISED ON COMMON RURAL HERBICIDE
      • Community Commemorates BHOPAL Disaster
      • Toxic Timber Dumping a Health Risk: Government Must Act
      • 330 Olympic Swimming Pools of Toxic Waste
      • Kids Enslaved to Poisoned Playgrounds by Timber Lobby
      • Toxic pesticide rain proven
      • Dalby cotton spraying a clear danger
    • Toxic Chemicals Information
  • Urban Sustainability
    • Urban Sustainability Background 1997-2000
      • BACKGROUND 1997-2000
    • Urban Sustainability Open Space
      • Open Space
    • Urban Sust -Water Cycle
    • Urban Sustainability Public Transport
      • Public Transport Plans
    • Urban Sustainability Clean Air
      • Action for Air
    • Urban Sustainability News & Reports
      • URBAN SPRAWL SPOILS OUR AIR
      • WYONG LEP: A DEVELOPER’S BANQUET
      • Wyong - bushland clearing rort
      • Green buildings are gold
      • Green tape attack will corrupt decision making
      • Send Orica back to pollution control school
      • POLLIES MOVE ON LAX POLLUTION LAWS
      • NSW Pollution Crisis Hidden
      • Latest Orica leak shows a pollution control system in crisis
      • How to stop more Oricas
      • Big Questions to answer on Orica toxic chemical release
      • WATER LICENCE CHANGES ERODE HUNTER WATER ACCOUNTABILITY
      • Call for New Planning Act for NSW
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      • Climate change undermines air quality plan
      • Wanted: New policies for healthly air
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      • Transport credibility on the line with North West rail link
      • 52 Community Groups tell Iemma Govt to fix planning
      • Toxic petrol vapour plan welcomed
      • Adelaide water management lagging behind rest of the country
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      • NSW Green Business Squandered
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      • Government abandons recycling for more unneccessary desalination
      • Alliance urges long term transport plan
      • Commitments to open space portection needed in NSW election campaign
      • Green bus fleet a step forward for clean air
      • Liberal breakthrough on water recycling
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      • Government inaction cripples key program to save Sydney's water
      • Government Admits Failure On Water Management As It Moves Closer to Desalination
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      • Peak business and environment groups call for CBD transport plan to fix gridlock
      • Air Pollution Deaths Reveal Failure of Air Quality Programs
      • Government report reveals failure on transport and air pollution
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      • Major reform of water management on central coast needed
      • BASIX cave-in rings environment alarm
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      • BASIX upgrade essential
      • CNG Buses rethink a victory for common sense and clean air
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      • Sydney needs Urban ESD Taskforce
      • Public transport derby highlights greenhouse issues as Senate Inquiry continues
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      • King Edward Park saga
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      • Sydney Water fails water conservation test - goes for cash
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      • Transport levy win for air quality and Western Sydney
      • Pubic meeting opposes bushland sale
      • Sydney - call for environmental sustainability
      • Community Forums demand better public transport
      • SUTHERLAND COUNCIL URGED TO BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN BUSHLAND JEWELL
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      • OPPOSITION CALL FOR DAM INQUIRY SHOWS LACK OF VISION ON WATER MANAGEMENT
      • Call to Build an Invisible Dam for Sydney
      • Origin's Greener Power Set to Take NSW by Storm
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      • OPPOSITION CALL FOR DAM INVESTIGATION SHOWS LACK OF VISION ON WATER MANAGEMENT
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      • Environment Groups Release Water Plan for Sydney
      • ENVIRONMENTALISTS WELCOME NCC DRAFT DETERMINATION ON SERVICES SYDNEY PROPOSAL
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      • GEORGES RIVER BUSHLAND ANNOUNCEMENT ATTACKED
      • GOVERNMENT WATER ANNOUNCEMENTS NOT A LONG TERM SOLUTION
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      • Alternative to desalination in Sydney launched
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      • NSW RECYCLING STRATEGY – BIG MOVE, MORE TO COME
      • Action demanded on excess packaging
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      • Major advance on container deposits campaign welcomed
      • Captain Cook to meet Environment Minister Burke on Cooks River, to call for action on litter
      • Black hole in Australia’s recycling of packaging
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      • Ministers' Packaging Study - deeply flawed
      • New International Study Shines Light on Solutions for Australia’s Lost 6 Billion Beverage Containers
      • ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS SHOULD GET CRACKING ON CONTAINER DEPOSITS
      • AUSTRALIA'S DANGEROUS LITTER
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      • NT CONTAINER DEPOSITS DECISION OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
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      • EPHC Mid-term Review of National Packaging Covenant
      • Waste Mountain Range Needs to be Climbed by Environment Ministers
      • National Packaging Covenant Needs Radical Surgery
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      • Viability of Recyclers Threatened by Rudd’s Climate Change Policies
      • Victoria – more to do on growing waste mountain
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      • Big Benefits from Recycling Bottles and Cans
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      • Mobile Phone Recycling Fails
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      • Supermarkets Fail Plastic Bag Test: Regulation Needed
      • Tick for Sydney City Council call for e-waste recycling
      • Government Scapegoats Recyclers for Exploding Gas Bottles
      • Boomerang Alliance Slams Productivity Commission’s Final Report
      • Woollahra Council commended on e-waste recycling
      • 84 groups want the plastic bag banned
      • Packaging and drink companies dump new costs on local govt
      • WA – biggest waster, poor recycler
      • Industry, Community Kick-Start Campaign for Computer Recycling
      • Dell Urged to Recycle Battery Millions
      • New Alliance Calls for Urgent Action on Computer Recycling Laws
      • Revealed: Beverage Industry Secret Anti Container Deposit Plan in WA
      • Time's up for plastic bags
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      • Productivity Commission Stuck in Dark Ages on Recycling
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      • Turning Hunter Rubbish Into Trees
      • Will Sydney rubbish country NSW?
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      • Waste at historic turning point
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      • Green Groups Back Industry Call for TV Take-Back Regulation
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      • Ministers Avert Waste Crisis
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    • NSW Land Clearing Laws – something stinks
    • BHP Billiton mine plan gets go ahead to damage Sydney’s water supply catchment
    • NSW’S ENVIRONMENT CRED ON NOTICE
    • HOW TO DESTROY A FOREST FOREVER
    • DISMAL MINING IMPACTS OUTRAGE
    • DIRTY COAL UNDERMINES NSW WATER SUPPLY
    • Dirty coal tactics undermine sydney water supply
    • NSW Farmers misinformation on Native Veg Act reaches new heights
    • Gujarat failures send danger signals for NSW Government and water catchments
    • GREEN LIGHT FOR MINING SPELLS BLACK DAY FOR NATIVE HABITATS
    • NATIVE HABITAT BATTLE IS ALL ABOUT BIODIVERSITY
    • NSW Farmers ‘licence to bulldoze’
    • ILLEGAL HABITAT DESTRUCTION - a challenge for O’Farrell government
    • Environment Groups gear up for land clearing law fight
    • Campaign to protect native veg laws launched
    • Native Veg Law review - excuse to boost land clearing
    • O’Farrell Government’s Green Reputation Shattered
    • MP’s call encourages breaches of land clearing laws
    • Longwall mine backflip raises serious questions about NSW government’s planning promises
    • NSW Mining and Gas Policy – a disappointment
    • 'WE CAN COEXIST' - MINING MYTH BLASTED
    • Coal miner must be prosecuted for failure to reveal political donations
    • Water catchment gas drilling should be called off
    • COWBOY MINING INDUSTRY GETS THE ELECTION IT DESERVES
    • Wyong Coal Mine Rejection Good for Water Security
    • NO DAM GIVES THE HUNTER WATER MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY
    • MINING GIANT CAVES TO ENVIRONMENT
    • Govt Must Act on Polluting Gas and Damaging Coal in Sydney's Water Catchment
    • Mining Companies Hide Threat to Sydney's Water Supply
    • THREATENED SPECIES DUMPED FOR DEVELOPER RULES
    • OIL SPILL RISK IN AUSTRALIA
    • ICONIC SNOWY RIVER E-COLLAPSE
    • STONER’S DOPEY STANCE ON FRAGILE FLORA
    • BHPB Ducks Public Accountability
    • LAND CLEARING LAWS CHANGE – NO WAY
    • REES MUST SOLVE SNOWY RIVER CRISIS
    • BIG MISTAKE: TILLEGRA DAMNED
    • SHAMELESS SNOWY HYDRO EXPOSED
    • SNOWY FLOWS WON’T DAMN TOURISM
    • CATCHMENT STILL ENDANGERED
    • GARRETT SHOWS MUSCLE
    • SNOWY SQUEEZED TO DEATH
    • PLANNING FIASCO IN LOWER HUNTER
    • Sydney Water Awards Helping Miner's Greenwash
    • Keneally Must Reject Offensive Mining Proposal
    • Hawkesbury–Nepean River Gets a Much Needed Helping Hand
    • Budget Good for Rivers & Environment, But Misses The Next Steps
    • Coal Mining 'on Steroids' - New Mines Under Sydney's Water Supply
    • BHP Billiton Claims Mask Years of Damage
    • BHPB's ‘Zero Harm’ Policy Sham - Premier Must Act
    • Snowy River Flows Threatened Unless Snowy Water Licence Changed
    • BHPB Coal Mining to Further Wreck Water Supply Catchment
    • 24 Animal Species Under Threat from Longwall Mining
    • North coast threatened by development land grab
    • BHP Billiton bullies to weaken environmental safeguards
    • Mining lobby group engaging in doublespeak
    • Devastating longwall damage exposed
    • Pull back from rivers and swamps mining inquiries told
    • Our Forests, Our Future: A question of politics?
    • Shoalhaven on notice but more controls needed
    • Tree vandals deserve swift prosecution
    • Waratah Rivulet Rally Postponed
    • Coffs Harbour surf event to wreck dune
    • BHP longwall consultation rort
    • Longwall information clamped
    • More river damage caused by DPI
    • Miners and government in longwall denial
    • Coalition's Vision - a bulldozed landscape
    • New Report: longwall mining destroying NSW rivers
    • TEC supports more Gosford CBD consult
    • Nepean longwall threat
    • Bega environment suffers for development on the South Coast
    • Lower Hunter Strategy lacks sustainability
    • Private loggers to self-regulate?
    • Sensitive south coast sites should be off limits
    • Snowy backflip a victory for the community and the environment
    • Government and Opposition hear coastal demands
    • 160 groups reject coastal strategies
    • Coastal strategy greenwash exposed
    • Clearing compliance actions supported
    • Minister for Illegal Clearing
    • Snowy River loses out
    • Snowy River loses out
    • Snowy River flows under threat
    • Parks for Profit - economic rationalism threatens future of National Parks
    • Domestic Cattle Trashing Blue Mountains National Park
    • Kilometres of coastal land being ploughed up for millionaires' playgrounds - local communities ignor
    • NSW COMMUNITY APPEAL TO PREMIER TO PROTECT THE COAST
    • WORLD HERITAGE RECOMMENDATION FOR SOUTH COAST LAKES
    • NSW ENVIRONMENT GROUP CONDEMNS NATIONAL PARKS BOSS FOR BOWING TO 4WD BULLY BOYS
    • NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FERAL ANIMAL CONTROL - DAMNED IF THEY DO AND DAMNED IF THEY DON'
    • WARNING BELLS SOUNDED OVER ALARMING SPECULATIVE GROWTH IN COASTAL POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT
    • Drinking water protection ? Delayed!
    • NSW GOVERNMENT COASTAL REPORT POINTS TO COUNCIL FAILURES
    • PORT MACQUARIE HIGH RISES BLITZ THE COAST WHILE PLANNING REFORMS GET DELAYED
    • FERAL HORSE HERITAGE STUDY ROAD TO RUIN FOR NATIONAL PARKS
    • Coastal Development Councils Face Backlash
    • Leading climate policy expert to give Milo Dunphy Memorial Lecture
    • National Party likely to lose Federal seat of Richmond
    • BHP leads attack on water catchments
    • Control of Local Council Planning and Development Excesses taken out of Developer's Hands
    • COASTAL PACKAGE WELCOMED
    • Proposed increase in Kangaroo Exploitation leads to commercialisation of all wildlife
    • State Government urged to intervene on Albion Park subdivision proposal
    • GOVERNMENT CALLED ON TO STOP SURGE OF LAND CLEARING ON NSW COAST
    • BUSHLAND CLEARING MINISTER GETS NO CONFIDENCE VOTE
    • Metropolitan water supply under threat
    • Failure of government report into Dendrobium mine
    • Coal mining and catchments battle goes cyber
    • URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO STOP FURTHER SPREAD OF NOXIOUS SEAWEED FROM LAKE CONJOLA
    • NSW GOVERNMENT URGED TO CALL IN GIANT ARTIFICIAL POLLUTION LAKE AT BALLINA
    • Speculators and Developers eating away at Taree Coast
    • HASTINGS COUNCIL - REQUEST FOR STATE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION AND INVESTIGATION
    • STRONG SUPPORT FOR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR NSW COAST
    • GREEN UMBRELLA FOR COAST ESSENTIAL
    • WEST YAMBA DEVELOPMENT PLANS
    • MAITLAND GREENING PLAN A BLUEPRINT FOR BUSHLAND CLEARING
    • Hunting Bill Should be Ditched
    • 27 international, national and NSW groups oppose game bill
    • Game Bill, Botched
    • National parks next target for hunters
    • ENVIRONMENT, ANIMAL WELFARE AND GUN CONTROL ALLIANCE SAYS MP's VIEWS ON BLOOD SPORT BILL WILL COUNT
    • CENTRAL COAST ENVIRONMENT GROUPS TALK STATE ELECTION STRATEGY
    • TWEED COUNCILLORS SHOULD STEP DOWN
    • Recreational Hunters' Dispersal Of Feral Pigs Should Make Scrapping The Blood-Sport "Game" Bill A Pr
    • Critical Habitat, Cyanide and Little Penguin
    • Rescue for Coastal Lakes
    • Spencerville Controversy Highlights Need For Councils To Abandon Developer-Driven Planning
    • Coastal Lakes Recommendations Should Lead Way
    • NSW Government Urged to Call in Mollymook Beach Development and Review all Shoalhaven's Plans
    • Government Urged to Rewrite Development Strategy to Stop Destruction of Hallidays Point
    • SHELLHARBOUR COUNCIL INACTION CAUSING DESTRUCTION OF RARE PLANT
    • Tweed's grandiose high rise schemes labelled "deluded and one-dimensional"
    • TWEED"S "SALT" BEACH DEVELOPMENT MORE LIKE "SHIFTING SANDS" SAYS ENVIRONMENT GROUP
    • Land Clearing Audit reveals maladministration
    • Coast law welcomed
    • TANK PADDOCK DECISION A RECIPE FOR ONGOING CONFLICT
    • Carr Government Fails Environmental Hot Issues Test
    • A great day for old growth forests
    • NSW GOVERNMENT WIMPS OUT AS TWEED APPLIES ZERO TOLERANCE TO ITS NATURAL COASTLINE
    • Shoalhaven Council's Development-At-Any-Cost Stance Results in Environmental Disaster in Jervis Bay
    • COSTA'S RAIL CUTS A CRUEL BLOW TO LONG SUFFERING COMMUTERS
    • GOVERNMENT URGED TO CALL IN SOUTH WEST ROCKS SUBDIVISIONS AS PLANNING IGNORED BY KEMPSEY COUNCIL
    • ENVIRONMENT GROUP URGES PLANNING MINISTER TO VISIT MICALO ISLAND TO SEE WHY MASSIVE PRAWN FARM PROPO
    • BOURNDA SUBDIVISION COULD SET PRECEDENT FOR URBAN SPRAWL ON RURAL LANDS
    • NATURAL COASTLINE BEING WIPED OUT BY DEVELOPER GREED AND GOVERNMENT INACTION
    • COSTA'S RAIL PLANS FAIL TO ADDRESS SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT CRISIS
    • BECTON'S BYRON BEACH FRONT SUBURB REPRESENTS OVERDEVELOPMENT OF FRAGILE SITE
    • Local And State Governments Urged to Adopt North Coast Initiative to Stop Excessive and Illegal Land
    • ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF TWEED'S KINGS FOREST SITE URGENTLY REQUESTED
    • INTERVENTION NEEDED TO STOP DEVELOPER GREED UNDERMINING WYONG'S LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY
    • Action Needed Now to Stop Coastal Land Clearing Epidemic
    • TAREE COUNCIL'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH CONCRETE GIVES KISS OF DEATH TO NORTH REDHEAD
    • NATIVE VEGETATION DEAL FRACTURE
    • CONSERVATIONISTS SLAM STATE GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN LAKE MACQUARIE COUNCIL LEP
    • SHOALHAVEN TREE MANAGEMENT PLAN A RECIPE FOR CITY WIDE TREE SLAUGHTER
    • Brigalow blockade receives peak group support
    • ENVIRONMENT GROUPS REJECT DEVELOPERS' ATTEMPT TO CONTROL DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT
    • NSW Government's SEPP 71 and land clearing changes positive steps for coastal protection
    • Kempsey Mayor called on to take action to combat over-development in her Shire
    • TWEED VOTERS URGED REJECT DEVELOPERS IN GREEN SHEEP'S CLOTHING AT COUNCIL ELECTIONS
    • Government urged to replace Hastings Council's "Kindergarten-standard" development plans
    • AREA 14 - HASTINGS OVERDEVELOPMENT A HOT ISSUE
    • TEC to meet Hastings Mayor on Area 14
    • Keep Local Councils Out Of Developers' Clutches
    • RICHMOND COUNCIL SHOULD BE PROSECUTED OVER DYING LAKE
    • FEDERAL LABOR PROMISE TO PROTECT COAST WELCOMED BY NSW ENVIRONMENT GROUP
    • NSW Environment Group urges Coffs Harbour Council and State Government to protect Corindi Beach Wetl
    • TAREE COUNCIL'S NEW PLAN TURNS HALLIDAYS POINT INTO UGLY SUBURBIA
    • Government Department Questioned ovre Alleged North Coast Illegal Land Clearing
    • Government Department must take strong action to Stop Land Clearing in NSW Coastal Zone
    • CARAVAN RESORT PROPOSAL ALONG SCENIC RIVER FRONT IN SOUTH WEST ROCKS SLAMMED
    • NSW GOVERNMENT URGED TO DIRECT TAREE COUNCIL'S PLANNING
    • LAKE MACQUARIE COUNCIL URGED TO REJECT BONNELLS BAY REZONING
    • Eurobdoalla's Unsold And Empty Properties Shows Need To Stop New Urban Sprawl And Over-Developments
    • ENVIRONMENT GROUP URGES PREMIER TO SAVE KEMPSEY'S HERITAGE-LISTED POINT PLOMER
    • TWEED COUNCILLOR FUNDING SHOWS SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL DEVELOPER DONATIONS ARE
    • TWEED COUNCILLOR ELECTION FUNDING QUESTIONS
    • TAREE COUNCIL'S LOSS OF REZONING POWERS SHOULD END THEIR DEVELOPER-DICTATED PLANNING
    • SOUTH COAST MAJOR DEVELOPMENT MORATORIUM BEST CHANCE TO END DEVELOPER-DICTATED PLANNING
    • TAREE COUNCIL DELETES NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
    • Shoalhaven Election Donations - new law call
    • New planning template will lower environmental standards
  • Rivers & Water
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  • Latest News
    • URBAN SPRAWL SPOILS OUR AIR
    • WYONG LEP: A DEVELOPER’S BANQUET
    • Wyong - bushland clearing rort
    • Green buildings are gold
    • Green tape attack will corrupt decision making
    • Send Orica back to pollution control school
    • POLLIES MOVE ON LAX POLLUTION LAWS
    • NSW Pollution Crisis Hidden
    • Latest Orica leak shows a pollution control system in crisis
    • How to stop more Oricas
    • Big Questions to answer on Orica toxic chemical release
    • WATER LICENCE CHANGES ERODE HUNTER WATER ACCOUNTABILITY
    • Call for New Planning Act for NSW
    • COSTA'S DAM PLAN IS LEAKY-AS
    • KILLER AIR CRISIS
    • TEC FOI FORCES RELEASE OF DRINKING WATER REVIEW
    • SYDNEY’S AIR QUALITY SUCKS
    • SUPERCARS TRASH OLYMPIC LEGACY
    • RUBBERY FIGURES BLOW TILLEGRA DAM SCAM
    • TILLEGRA DAM DAMNED
    • HUNTER WATER BILLS ROCKET
    • Killer Summer Smog Alert
    • Snail Pace on Petrol Vapour Puts Air Quality and Public Health at Risk
    • V8 Race Bill a blank cheque for enivonmental and economic destruction
    • Rainfall Data and Independent Study Pour Cold Water on Tillegra Dam
    • Tillegra Cost Blowout - A taste of things to come
    • Labor MP's Urged to Reject V8 Race Legislation
    • No V8’s at Olympic Park Live On YouTube
    • Full Inquiry Needed Into Costly, White Elephant Tillegra Dam
    • Central Coast Councils Expose Tillegra Folly
    • TEC Calls on new Planning Minister to fix up Sartor’s Mess
    • Olympic Park V8 Test – Rees’ New Broom or Business as Usual
    • Community Opposition Grows to Olympic Park V8 Madness
    • Hunter and Central Coast Water Price Investigation Nobbled by State Government Interference
    • V8 Lunacy - Green Olympics Legacy At Risk
    • Ministers Intervention in Mid North Coast Planning 'Unwise'
    • Hunter Water H250 Plan a Costly Mistake for Hunter Residents and the Environment
    • Planning Act Inquiry Essential
    • Planning Reform Groundswell: 104 Groups Reject Sartor's Changes
    • Productivity Commission wrong on water restrictions
    • North West Metro Rail a major boost for air quality and public transport
    • Western Sydney biodiversity certification deeply flawed
    • Climate change undermines air quality plan
    • Wanted: New policies for healthly air
    • Air Strategy without traction
    • Danger Signs in Sydney Air Pollution Report
    • Sydney Water price investigation nobbled by political interference
    • Public transport and liveable communities in danger if developer levies axed
    • Transport credibility on the line with North West rail link
    • 52 Community Groups tell Iemma Govt to fix planning
    • Toxic petrol vapour plan welcomed
    • Adelaide water management lagging behind rest of the country
    • More Brisbane water reform needed
    • NSW Green Business Squandered
    • Permanent water restrictions needed for long term management of Sydney water supplies
    • Tillegra Dam unsustainable, unneccessary and unjustified
    • Politics, not water conservation, driving flawed Central Coast water strategy
    • Government abandons recycling for more unneccessary desalination
    • Alliance urges long term transport plan
    • Commitments to open space portection needed in NSW election campaign
    • Green bus fleet a step forward for clean air
    • Liberal breakthrough on water recycling
    • Building on the Harbour
    • One year metro plan report
    • More At Stake Than Developers Profits On Waterfront
    • Desalination Announcement Points To Government’s Failure On Water Management
    • Government inaction cripples key program to save Sydney's water
    • Government Admits Failure On Water Management As It Moves Closer to Desalination
    • Recycling and permanent water savings the only solution to falling dam levels
    • Peak business and environment groups call for CBD transport plan to fix gridlock
    • Air Pollution Deaths Reveal Failure of Air Quality Programs
    • Government report reveals failure on transport and air pollution
    • Light rail promise a shot in the arm for public transport
    • Accountability the key for new Central Coast water corporation
    • Recycled water pricing report a step in the right direction but further reform needed
    • Major reform of water management on central coast needed
    • BASIX cave-in rings environment alarm
    • Councils urged to reject mobile desalination
    • Recycling strategy a good start
    • BASIX upgrade essential
    • CNG Buses rethink a victory for common sense and clean air
    • Public Transport only solution to rising air pollution
    • Newcastle Rail decision a victory for common sense and sound transport planning
    • Desal on backburner, recycling on front foot
    • Diesel Bus Blunder
    • Horror smog hits Sydney
    • Manly Dam Urban Bushland Watershed
    • Environment impacts of oil spill unknown
    • Sydney needs Urban ESD Taskforce
    • Public transport derby highlights greenhouse issues as Senate Inquiry continues
    • Latest figures reveal air quality crisis
    • Government urged to avoid Western Orbital/Public Transport conflict
    • Olympic green lessons - not forgotten
    • ADI Site - ticking salinity time bomb
    • Government urged to return open space to King Edward Park
    • Wood heaters fouling Sydney's air
    • Warringah Council urged to abandon John Fisher Park Park plan
    • Indepedent Review - NSW Government Air Quality Program Fails
    • Government planning and transport plan flawed
    • Public transport solution to air pollution
    • Willoughby strategy - esd step in right direction
    • New standards needed for Hunter Water
    • PUBLIC TRANSPORT SOLUTION TO AIR POLLUTION
    • Urban release plan recipe for urban sprawl
    • Tranpsort chaos points to summer of smog
    • King Edward Park saga
    • Air Pollution Tarnishes 'Green Olympics' Reputation
    • Feds urged to save bushland jewel
    • FEDERAL GOVERNMENT URGED TO SAVE URBAN BUSHLAND JEWEL
    • State budget no answer for clean air
    • Sydney Water fails water conservation test - goes for cash
    • Parliament set to wind back diesel controls
    • Transport levy win for air quality and Western Sydney
    • Pubic meeting opposes bushland sale
    • Sydney - call for environmental sustainability
    • Community Forums demand better public transport
    • SUTHERLAND COUNCIL URGED TO BLOCK DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN BUSHLAND JEWELL
    • STATE GOVERNMENT TOLD CONGESTION CHARGING RIGHT FOR CARS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
    • GreenSafe Car Profiler a positive step for clean air
    • New Plan for Sydney's Water
    • PUBLIC TRANSPORT NEEDS MONEY
    • WATER RESTRICTIONS ESSENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABLE
    • WATER PRICING CHANGES A GOOD START BUT CAP ON SYDNEY WATER MUST BE STRICTER
    • OPPOSITION CALL FOR DAM INQUIRY SHOWS LACK OF VISION ON WATER MANAGEMENT
    • Call to Build an Invisible Dam for Sydney
    • Origin's Greener Power Set to Take NSW by Storm
    • SYDNEY ON THE BRINK
    • PORT BOTANY COMMISSION OF INQUIRY MUST CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS
    • CALL FOR FAIR DINKUM EFFORT FROM WATER MINISTERS
    • Lazy industry should not stand in the way of sustainable building law
    • OPPOSITION CALL FOR DAM INVESTIGATION SHOWS LACK OF VISION ON WATER MANAGEMENT
    • WATER PRICING CHANGES A GOOD START BUT MORE WILL BE NEEDED
    • Environment Groups Release Water Plan for Sydney
    • ENVIRONMENTALISTS WELCOME NCC DRAFT DETERMINATION ON SERVICES SYDNEY PROPOSAL
    • Metro Strategy - Sydney's last chance
    • GEORGES RIVER BUSHLAND ANNOUNCEMENT ATTACKED
    • GOVERNMENT WATER ANNOUNCEMENTS NOT A LONG TERM SOLUTION
    • REDUCING DEMAND A VITAL STEP THAT WILL NEED PRICING SUPPORT
    • Water Strategy Scorecard
    • MINISTER URGED TO REVOKE GOSFORD CITY COUNCIL'S PLANNING POWERS
    • WATER PRICING CHANGES A STEP TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
    • PUBLIC MEETING - THE F6 AND SYDNEY'S TRANSPORT FUTURE
    • WATER PRICING CHANGES AN IMPORTANT STEP BUT FUNDS WASTED ON DESALINATION
    • HEALTH AND FUEL COSTS MAKE COMPELLING CASE FOR GAS BUSES
    • Alternative to desalination in Sydney launched
    • Metro Strategy - implementation the acid test
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  • Latest News
    • COKE CHOKES ON ITS OWN LITTER
    • NSW RECYCLING STRATEGY – BIG MOVE, MORE TO COME
    • Action demanded on excess packaging
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS – QLD MINISTER OUT OF STEP
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS – MINISTERS TAKE A BIG STEP FORWARDS
    • Major advance on container deposits campaign welcomed
    • Captain Cook to meet Environment Minister Burke on Cooks River, to call for action on litter
    • Black hole in Australia’s recycling of packaging
    • TEC’s COOL PLANET Short Film Competition Winners!!
    • TEC’s “WASTE NOT” DOCUMENTARY IS “MOST INFLUENTIAL”
    • Ministers' Packaging Study - deeply flawed
    • New International Study Shines Light on Solutions for Australia’s Lost 6 Billion Beverage Containers
    • ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS SHOULD GET CRACKING ON CONTAINER DEPOSITS
    • AUSTRALIA'S DANGEROUS LITTER
    • New National Product Recycling Law to be Quickly Tested
    • ABOUT TEC'S FILM WASTE NOT
    • Cool Planet Recycling Revolution Short Short Film Competition
    • Moving on NSW waste and recycling
    • Government Toxic TV Debacle
    • Australia’s Environment Ministers Meet – more time wasting on waste issues?
    • Councils should not pay for beverage industry litter
    • Commit to Recycling say Industry and Green Groups to Major Parties
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS WIN WIN
    • Why Environment Ministers Must Act on 5 July
    • Container Deposits Key Issue in Federal, Vic, NSW Elections
    • MINISTERS MUST ACT ON CONTAINER DEPOSIT PLUSES
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS BONANZA SUPPRESSED
    • E-WASTE CRISIS CLOGS SYDNEY'S ARTERIES
    • TOXIC TELEVISIONS
    • FOI on crucial CD report quashed
    • Container Deposits - NT move welcomed, time for national action
    • Vic Landfill Levy = Green Jobs
    • CABONNE COUNCIL DUMPS ON ORANGE
    • EXPLOSIVE SUMMER BBQ HAZARD
    • Australia's Rubbish On The Move
    • BEVERAGE COMPANIES TALK NONSENSE
    • AUSTRALIAN RECYCLERS READY TO RIP
    • AUSTRALIA'S TOXIC TYRE TRADE DISGRACE
    • OPPORTUNITIES LOST AS E-WASTE SPIRALS
    • AUSTRALIA'S E-WASTE CRISIS
    • NSW wastes $1.8 billion recycling opportunity
    • QUIT PUSSYFOOTING ON RECYCLING BONANZA
    • HISTORIC E-RECYCLING BREAKTHROUGH
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS KICK ARSE
    • GREEN GROUPS, BUSINESS AGREE ON E-WASTE SCHEME
    • LOCAL COUNCIL CLOUTS CPRS
    • LANDFILLERS DO THE DIRTY
    • WITLESS WHITSUNDAY COUNCIL REJECTS RECYCLING
    • THROWAWAY TRUMPS REPAIR
    • EXPLOSIVE GAS CYLINDER BURDEN
    • INQUIRY NEEDED INTO PACKAGING INDUSTRY BLACKMAIL
    • COUNCILS NEED TAKE-BACK E-WASTE SUPPORT
    • MINISTERS MAKE WASTE HISTORY
    • CONTAINER DEPOSITS – NOT JUST ABOUT LITTER
    • RECYCLE TOXIC ELECTRONIC WASTE, SAY GREEN GROUPS
    • ToxicElectronicWasteZombiesComeToTown
    • AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITIES DEMAND CONTAINER DEPOSIT SCHEME
    • GREEN WASTE STREAM IS A MUST
    • INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS UNITE ON E-WASTE
    • $2billion recycling plan to turn economic gloom to boom
    • NT CONTAINER DEPOSITS DECISION OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE
    • E-Waste Outcasts Want a Home, Tell Garrett
    • Recyling and E-waste: TEC on "Australia Talks" ABC radio
    • EPHC Mid-term Review of National Packaging Covenant
    • Waste Mountain Range Needs to be Climbed by Environment Ministers
    • National Packaging Covenant Needs Radical Surgery
    • Industry, Local Government and Green Groups Call for Government Action on Electronic Waste
    • Woolies CFL Phase Out Needs Toxic Plan
    • Litter Study Highlights Need for Container Deposits, Shames Coca-Cola
    • Viability of Recyclers Threatened by Rudd’s Climate Change Policies
    • Victoria – more to do on growing waste mountain
    • Packaging Industry Gets It Wrong Again
    • SA says ‘its time to go’ - to the plastic bag
    • TEC needs 2 waste project officers
    • Big Business Influence Likely to Stymie Action on Recycling?
    • Big Benefits from Recycling Bottles and Cans
    • More Recycling Targets Broken
    • Plastic Bag Move Welcomed
    • Toxic Batteries Light Up Government Recycling Failure
    • Queensland at Waste Crossroads
    • Councils and Rubbish: carbon footprint problems
    • Waste Companies, Recyclers and Environmentalists Unite To Prevent Global Warming
    • Nokia battery recall shows the way on mobile phone recycling
    • Mobile Phone Recycling Fails
    • Mobile Muster Myth Exposed - levy paying for more hot air
    • Supermarkets Fail Plastic Bag Test: Regulation Needed
    • Tick for Sydney City Council call for e-waste recycling
    • Government Scapegoats Recyclers for Exploding Gas Bottles
    • Boomerang Alliance Slams Productivity Commission’s Final Report
    • Woollahra Council commended on e-waste recycling
    • 84 groups want the plastic bag banned
    • Packaging and drink companies dump new costs on local govt
    • WA – biggest waster, poor recycler
    • Industry, Community Kick-Start Campaign for Computer Recycling
    • Dell Urged to Recycle Battery Millions
    • New Alliance Calls for Urgent Action on Computer Recycling Laws
    • Revealed: Beverage Industry Secret Anti Container Deposit Plan in WA
    • Time's up for plastic bags
    • Governments Must Stand up to Industry on Plastic Bags
    • Productivity Commission Stuck in Dark Ages on Recycling
    • 2005 Missing plastic bag numbers: where are they?
    • Country megatip for Sydney rejected - one more to go
    • Turning Hunter Rubbish Into Trees
    • Will Sydney rubbish country NSW?
    • Woodlawn tip - more jobs will be lost
    • Archaic view from Northern Sydney Waste Board
    • Waste at historic turning point
    • Huge community and industry opposition to megatips
    • Tumbarumba left behind in the waste stakes!
    • How much has the Northern Sydney Waste Board wasted?
    • Wood-fired power stations face uphill battle
    • RATS, LITTER AND TOXIC WASTE: NSW RURAL LANDFILLS IN CRISIS
    • 2003 Year of Great Waste Debate: Time for Producers to Make Products Cleaner
    • U-Turn a Must for One-Way Used Tyres
    • Toxic Batteries a Health Threat: Green Group Urges Government to Act
    • Green Group Condemns Toxic Vehicles as Dead-End for Environment and Human Health
    • Environment Group Backs Local Councils in Move to Shift Burden of Product Waste to Manufacturers
    • Government Action Urgent to Address Rising Mountains of Packaging Waste
    • Industry, Community Leaders Call for Swift Action on Producer Responsibility
    • GREEN GROUP HAILS PLASTIC BAG BAN
    • Crunch-time Arrives for Wasteful Industries
    • Green Groups Demand Action on Packaging Waste
    • Green Groups Back Industry Call for TV Take-Back Regulation
    • Green Groups Back Industry Call for TV Take-Back Regulation
    • Cut to the Chase, Cut the Red Tape - Ban on Plastic Bags Way to Go
    • Councils Rubbish Waste Targets
    • New Report Slams Packaging Waste Industry
    • Ministers Avert Waste Crisis
    • The Great Mobile Phone Hoax - Government Must Mandate National Take-Back Scheme
    • Boost Breach Tip of Iceberg for Poor Packaging
    • Finally, Boost Juice Will Do The Right Thing (but only in Bondi)
    • Toxic Batteries a Health Threat: Green Group Urges Government to Act
  • Product Recycling
  • Landfills/Alternatives
  • Packaging
    • On-Line Letter for Container Deposits
    • Beverage Container Deposits
    • Plastic Bags
    • Waste Packaging
  • Market Tools
    • Market Tools for Reducing Waste
 




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