Today is a landmark day for environmental law. After years of false starts and abandoned promises, Labor has finally struck a deal with the Greens to pass long-awaited changes to the federal ...
It may not be obvious, but the federal government's rewrite of Australia's environment laws could be the single greatest change to housing, renewables, mining and major industries in decades. The ...
Australia passed a landmark bill to overhaul the nation's environmental laws after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government struck a deal with the left-wing minority Greens party. Both houses of ...
On 28 November 2025, the highly anticipated reforms to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act) were passed by both Houses, consisting of seven pieces of ...
The Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California, in 2016. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) If lawmakers care as much about housing costs, energy prices, climate change, domestic ...