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Communities have paid the price with premature deaths, terminal illnesses, asthma and other health problems’ and that those same communities ‘continue to be exposed to unsafe levels of air pollutants and toxics from coal mining and coal-fired power stations
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These levels of microplastics pollution are a continuous danger to fish and birdlife
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The Baaka is dying – it has lost its heartbeat. We have seen fish die in the millions, waterbird numbers have plummeted, communities have run out of water and freshwater mussels have disappeared from the Baaka
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Here we have technology available that could clean up Delta Electricity’s Vales Point
coal-fired power station and the EPA, with government support, is yet again contemplating
extending its licence to pollute over and above NSW emission controls.
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Participants are empowered to make a positive impact by restoring habitats, creating wildlife corridors, and enhancing the resilience of local ecosystems.
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We all deserve to have clean, fresh air.
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Concurrence from the Minister for the Environment will be required for state significant development or state significant infrastructure projects where conditions other than the requirement for the full number and type of credits to be met are proposed.
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RFAs … authorise logging of native forests on public land, private land and possibly even within National Parks, all while bypassing the usual environmental approval processes.
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The experiments are part of efforts to understand how best to help coral reefs recover from disturbance events like coral bleaching, which can damage and kill corals.
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Farmers for Climate Action has welcomed strong recommendations from the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee on carbon capture and storage, following US coal giant Glencore’s attempt to store coal waste underground in the Great Artesian Basin. The Great Artesian Basin or GAB is the largest and deepest artesian basin […]
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