Bushfire survivors are taking legal action against the NSW Environmental Protection Authority in an attempt to force more significant climate change action.
He said it was"staggering" that the state's primary environmental regulator didn't have a climate change policy. "They don't treat it like the pollutant that it is, and if you're going to fulfil your aim, fulfil your statutory mandate of protecting the environment, there's an inherent futility to that if you are ignoring the most important influencing factor on the environment long term which is stabilising the climate."He said the EPA was empowered to act on climate change and the EDO would argue it also had a duty to do so.
The NSW EPA made no comment on Monday except to say it had received court documents from the EDO and was considering them.Northern Australia's burning practices could be the answer to preventing future bushfire disasters
Have they heard that the IOD played a massive role in Black Summer?
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