The Latest Breaking News from Murray Watt

The controversial extension of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project off Western Australia faces two legal challenges. Both raise significant concerns about the validity of government approvals. One could even seek an injunction, preventing federal environment minister Murray Watt from making a final decision.

Exclusive: Agriculture minister Julie Collins and Indigenous affairs minister Malarndirri McCarthy expressed concern over Sturt Plateau pipeline’s construction

This week, Environment Minister Murray Watt met with groups representing business, the environment, renewable energy and First Nations communities in a bid to restart Labor’s stalled environmental reforms. There was one group in the room Watt presumably had to woo hardest: Western Australia’s miners.

There is no time to waste to fix broken nature laws, Environment Minister Murray Watt says, although early indications suggest climate will not be included.

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US president lays out terms and says US won’t kill supreme leader ‘for now’; minister hopes for reversal of WA heritage listing decision

Speaking to Guardian Australia, the environment minister said the report had been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

A legal bid to overturn the state approval of a massive gas project's extension could also impact a pending federal clearance, activists say.

The federal environment minister has joined forces with more than 90 countries to clamp down on plastic waste harming the environment and human health.

Environment minister Murray Watt is returning from oceans conference where he pledged to curb the scourge of plastics and ratify a treaty to protect the high seas

Environment minister Murray Watt is restarting the process after the government shelved earlier proposed reforms