The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) is finally developing a new national direction – either a national environment standard, national policy statement or hopefully both – to help councils’ decision-making…

The Ministry for the Environment (MFE) and the Department of Statistics in early April released two reports on our greenhouse gas emissions and trends.The MFE report is the official version…

In late March this year, new consents for the controversial composting and worm farming operation undertaken by Remediation NZ were heard by Commissioners for the Taranaki Regional Council. There were a…

According to MBIE the decommissioning of the controversial tui oil field offshore Taranaki is underway.   The Crown inherited the liability for cleaning up the Tui oil field when the permit…

A new study by Maasakkers and others (2021) looking at the United States has shown the oil and gas methane emissions are being underestimated.  The paper was published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry…