EPA pays tribute to sustainable leadership and innovation

EPA Victoria congratulates the winners of the 2022 Premier’s Sustainability Awards, announced in Melbourne last night. EPA CEO Lee Miezis said the evening was a celebration of the tremendous...

Spilt milk is money down the drain for trucking company

A trucking company and a driver found responsible for spilling 600 litres of milk into a storm drain have been fined $5,500 and $727 respectively by EPA Victoria because they had not been adequately...

EPA lays charges over tyre stockpile

EPA Victoria has laid three charges against ELT Recycling Australia alleging that in October 2021 the company stored in excess of 5000 EPU (Equivalent Passenger Units, the equivalent of standard car...

Lemon Springs update - September 2022

EPA’s cleanup of Lemon Springs continues, with waste removed from 26 of the 32 sites and 11 areas backfilled with clean soil. Acetylene cylinders are being excavated in large volumes, with over...

EPA charges Benalla manufacturer over air pollution

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has laid 39 charges each against a company and a former company director under both the Environment Protection Act 1970 and the Environment Protection...

Wangaratta Lifestyle Estate seeks development licence

Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has received a Development Licence application from  Wangaratta Lifestyle Estate Pty Ltd to build a waste water treatment facility. The facility...

EPA fines local man over burning waste at Yarragon

EPA has fined a local man nearly $2,000 and ordered a clean up after responding to reports of burning piles of waste on a property at Yarragon. The case began on 18 July with a report from a member of...

Advanced Recycling Victoria seeks EPA development licence

EPA Victoria has received an application from Advanced Recycling Victoria for a development licence for a plastic resource recovery plant in Altona, to convert end-of-life plastics into liquid and...

EPA puts SBI on notice

EPA today (30 Aug) issued SBI with a notice of intent to suspend its operating licence and requested the operator explain why they should be allowed to continue operations in light of significant...

Media Statement - Environmental Management Plan withdrawn

EPA Victoria has revoked its approval of the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) issued to Maddingley Brown Coal in 2021 for its Western Soil Treatment site.  The company requested the EMP’...