by Environmental Justice Australia | Apr 1, 2021 | Coal pollution
After five years in the making, the NSW government has released a draft Clean Air Strategy that fails to do anything to reduce pollution. Instead of providing a strategy with firm commitments and measurable deadlines to protect the community from toxic air...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Mar 1, 2021 | Coal pollution
Vales Point Power Station, jointly owned by Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery and operated by Delta Electricity, has been exempt from the more stringent ‘Group 5’ oxides of nitrogen (NOx) concentration emissions standards prescribed under the Protection of...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Feb 1, 2021 | Coal pollution
Back in June, EJA Clean Air Campaigner Maxwell Smith and EJA lawyer Bronya Lipski presented expert evidence to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into the health impacts of air pollution in NSW. Significantly, Max and Bronya’s appearance came the same week that The...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Sep 30, 2020 | Coal pollution
In August, we released new research by a team of volunteers from the Actuaries Institute of Australia, which calculates the economic cost of the health impacts of coal-burning power stations at an annual health bill of $2.4 billion. This shocking research follows a...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Aug 28, 2020 | Coal pollution
Air pollution from coal-fired power stations is impacting our health from birth to death. Everyone should be able to breathe clean air. But a new report published this week shows that more than 2 million Australians are exposed to unhealthy levels of...
