Major environmental law overhaul to be put to parliament this year as Murray Watt warns delays risk ‘destruction’
Labor will seek to legislate national standards and federal EPA in one package rather than multiple stages, as it tried and failed to do last term
A major overhaul of the federal environmental protection regime will be put to parliament this year, the minister, Murray Watt, has promised, as he warns further delays risk causing more environmental destruction" and stalled investment.
After last week's economic reform roundtable agreed to fast-track the original 18-month timeframe, Watt will on Tuesday confirm that legislation to rewrite the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) will be introduced before parliament rises for the year in late November.
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