Bill Shorten pledges to establish national environment protection authority

Leader has been under pressure to make an election commitment to an overhaul flagged at Labor conference

Labor will promise to overhaul environmental protection law and establish a National Environment Protection Authority, as Bill Shorten and Scott Morrison resume campaigning after the second leaders' debate in Brisbane on Friday night.

Green groups and the internal Labor environmental action group Lean have been pressing Labor to make a specific election commitment on the regulatory overhaul, which was first flagged by Shorten at last year's national conference.