Environmental issues
The NSW community is faced with many significant issues due to the demands placed on our environment. Education, compliance and regulation all play a part in improving our environment. The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) work together with the NSW community to help protect the environment. EPA focuses on minimising pollution and any risks to human health associated with use of hazardous materials, pesticides and waste, and on improving water quality, reducing the impacts of waste, air emissions and noise and regulating our forest activities. OEH has a regulatory role in relation to biodiversity, Aboriginal cultural heritage, waters and rivers, wildlife management and native vegetation and continues to undertake active programs to contain and reduce soil degradation and invasive pests and weeds.
Environmental protection licences
Licensing helps prevent pollution and encourages environmental best practice
Waste and resource recovery
Encouraging waste avoidance and recovery to minimise harm to our environment
Feature item
Proposed Coastal Protection Regulation 2011
The proposed Coastal Protection Regulation 2011 will support recent amendments to the Coastal Protection Act 1979, the the principal coastal management legislation in New South Wales. Amendments include new provisions for temporary use of sand or sandbags for emergency coastal protection works; improved coastal zone management plan arrangements and increased penalties for a breach of the principal Act. Find out more
