Soft plastics stockpile update

EPA has continued identifying and inspecting sites that are storing soft plastics. This work will occur into the holiday period and beyond.     An additional site with soft plastics has...

Cranbourne landfill update

MEDIA STATEMENT Cranbourne landfill operator SBI has been granted a stay of EPA’s licence suspension decision by VCAT. EPA Victoria had suspended its licence earlier this month, after repeated...

Better environment plans

How better environment plans offer an innovative way to comply with your obligations...

Media Statement from EPA Victoria CEO Lee Miezis

EPA welcomes today’s release of the Ombudsman’s report on her investigation into our approval of Environment Management Plans for sites to receive spoil from the West Gate Tunnel Project...

EPA fines stonecutting business for contaminating creek

EPA Victoria has been increasingly targeting pollution from wastewater going in to stormwater drains and EPA Southern Metropolitan Region officers have fined a stone cutting business $2,000 for...

Meet EPA's Ms Kara Fry

EPA is celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Saturday 11 February) with a series of staff profiles. In the lead up to Saturday and in recognition of the role women in...

Meet EPA's Dr Muriel Lepesteur-Thompson

EPA is celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Saturday 11 February) with a series of staff profiles. In the lead up to Saturday and in recognition of the role women in...

Kensington man avoids a bin but not a fine

The simple act of tossing a plastic drink bottle out a car window has cost a Kensington man $861 in the Broadmeadows Magistrates’ Court. A member of the public reported the man to EPA Victoria...

Yarra Valley Water waste to energy application

EPA Victoria is assessing a Development Licence application from Yarra Valley Water Corporation.    The application proposes the construction of a waste to energy facility at the site of the...

Industry inspection program continues

Are industries around Tullamarine protecting the environment as much as they should? EPA Victoria is conducting snap inspections on Wednesday, 22 February, to find out. EPA officers will be speaking...