by Kate Lewis | May 10, 2022 | Coal pollution, Communities
Everyone has the right to breathe safe and clean air – yet many Victorian communities are exposed to toxic air pollution every single day. Coal-burning power stations are one of the biggest sources of toxic pollution in the state but Victoria’s regulation of air...
by Georgia Rowles | Feb 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
EJA made a submission on the Environment Protection Authority’s Draft guideline for managing greenhouse gas emissions. You can read our submission here. The guideline is significant because it is the first material to be published by the EPA on greenhouse gas...
by Environmental Justice Australia | Dec 9, 2021 | Gippsland Lakes, Rivers and waterways
Read the Concerned Waterways Alliance response to the discussion draft of the Central and Gippsland Sustainable Water Strategy: first...
by Shane Korosec | Aug 26, 2021 | Victorian biodiversity laws
Victoria has just ‘modernised’ its key biodiversity law, the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988. We think it is high time we took that opportunity to use critical habitat protections to best ecological effect. In this report, we reflect on the legal and policy...
by Shane Korosec | Aug 5, 2021 | Coal pollution
Coal-burning power stations in NSW generate approximately 4.8–5.5 million tonnes of coal ash annually – a residual waste produced from coal-burning power that makes up one fifth of Australia’s industrial waste stream. For the past five years, there has...
