As the level of public support for Australia's coal, oil and gas industries deteriorates, the communities who are  forced to endure the environmental and health impacts of fossil fuel developments are increasingly finding a voice to challenge them. One of the most important avenues for public-interest challenges to noxious industries is through the courts.

Conservation groups are calling for more transparency and less spin on gas fracking from Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Marmion as he opened WA’s inaugural ‘Water Management for Shale and Tight Gas Resources’ seminar in Perth today. 

Analysing the State Budget is a good way to see where the government’s environmental priorities lie. The budget papers contain important information on changes we can expect in environmental policy and clues about whether the government is delivering on its commitments to environmental programs.

Today news broke that Gindalbie Metals Ltd has made a nomination to host the National Radioactive Waste dump at Badga Station in the Mid West of WA.

Community calls for strategy and resources to manage transition from coal industries in Collie 

Western Australia's peak environment group has launched Eco May - a month of community-led events and activities to build community connections around environmental issues across the state. 

National and state environment groups have condemned todays federal government conditional environmental approval for uranium mining beside WA’s largest national park as rushed and irresponsible. 

A group of farmers from the States Midwest have joined with conservationists, church leaders, unionists, social justice groups, lawyers and others at Parliament House to demonstrate their objection to anti-protest laws being debated in State Parliament.  

Western Australia’s peak environment group has warned that the lead government regulator for gas fracking in WA cannot be trusted to protect community health, groundwater and the environment due to conflicts of interest, inadequate regulations and a lack of transparency.  

Western Australia’s peak conservation organisation has commended the Environment Minister Albert Jacob and the Department of Parks and Wildlife for recent progress on improved artificial nesting hollows for endangered cockatoos, but warned that ongoing clearing of endangered cockatoo habitat must be urgently addressed to avoid the extinction of the species.