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NSW’s fast-track planning laws could allow mines to be approved without environmental assessment

Environmental assessments could go out the window for mining projects, windfarms and other developments, green groups say

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Half-yearly loss of almost $15m for NSW native forest logging shows industry future shaky, conservationists say

Former independent MP accuses division of throwing ‘good money after bad only to see our native wildlife suffer’

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Noxious weeds to help fuel proposed biomass power plant near Singleton

Redbank biomass generator would burn 850,000 tonnes of waste wood

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Environment protection and community consultation key to offshore wind success

Environment groups to rally in support of Hunter Offshore Wind project.

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EPA under pressure to release Vales Point reports

Environment groups demand access to Vales Point pollution reports

Newcastle Herald

Minister pledges to 'fix' broken biodiversity offset scheme

Penny Sharpe says government will overhaul biodiversity offset scheme.

Newcastle Herald

'Dying industry': taxpayers prop up native tree logging

Nearly $250 million in grants have gone to the state-owned NSW forestry corporation in recent years amid questions about the sector's financial viability.

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NSW Labor accused of ‘fundamental breach of trust’ over logging in promised koala national park

Tensions are escalating in state forests near Bellingen, where a protesters’ camp is locked in a standoff with a heavy police presence

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NSW Liberal plan to generate carbon credits by ending logging in state forests snubbed by federal Labor

Exclusive: State ministers touted ‘significant carbon abatement’ plus benefits for threatened species and regional economies

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NSW delays decision about future of country’s biggest power station until after energy security review

Owner Origin Energy says ‘nothing has changed’ with plan to shut the coal-fired Eraring plant no sooner than August 2025

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"Death of thousand cuts": Nature Conservation Council says environment laws are inadequate

Conservation Council says environment protection laws must be strengthened.

Newcastle Herald

Conservation council calls for logging moratorium in proposed Great Koala National Park

Conservation groups fear a further decline of the koala populations on the NSW north coast if logging doesn't stop within an area that could become protected habitat.

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Environment minister raises hopes new laws could include federal ban on native forest logging

Tanya Plibersek confirms regional forestry agreements will be covered by upgraded federal environment laws, hinting government may follow Victoria’s lead

The Guardian - AU

Loggers targeting one fifth of planned NSW koala park

Up to a fifth of wilderness set aside for the NSW Great Koala National Park could be logged in the next 12 months, environmental advocates say.

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Summit call amid claims loggers eyeing koala parklands

NSW will host a koala summit to "refocus" the state's strategy on protecting the iconic species as environmentalists say vital habitat is at risk of logging.

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NSW native forest logging up 175 per cent

More than 477,000 cubic metres of wood has been harvested in NSW, which conservation groups say flies in the face of protecting endangered species.

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Damning review of NSW biodiversity scheme

Developers can effectively pay to destroy threatened species in NSW, a new review of the state's biodiversity offsets scheme has found.

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‘Utterly damning’ review finds offsets scheme fails to protect NSW environment

Conservationists label report ‘utterly damning’ as opposition and crossbench MPs call for overhaul of state’s biodiversity market

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