Sentence examples for commonwealth environment from inspiring English sources

The panel believed a future government should introduce a mechanism that required states to act in line with plans and strategies developed by a commonwealth environment commission.

"The NSW policy does not clearly state that this rehabilitation will be additional to what is already required of mining companies and state agencies under existing legislation and industry practice," an internal working document from the commonwealth environment department says.

The Senate committee found the issue was so pressing that it should be urgently considered by the Council of Australian Governments meeting of commonwealth and state environment ministers.

This study was approved by the Antarctic Animal Care and Ionising Radiation Usage Ethics Committee Departmentt of the Environment, Commonwealth of Australia), and the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

"I've heard reports of the commonwealth department of environment pursuing substantial landholders who have been clearing exactly in accordance with permits granted by the Queensland government," he said.

After some pre-event controversy, Bill Shorten committed at last December's national conference to introducing a new Australian environment act and creating a commonwealth environmental protection agency if Labor wins the coming election.

Water recovered for the environment is held by the commonwealth environmental water holder, who works with the assistance of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to determine how best to release the flows.

But Commonwealth countries have not always offered an open environment; among the things they learned from British mentors along with ideals like the presumption of innocence was how to protect the profession from pesky competitors.

At Labor's national conference last year, Shorten committed to introducing a new environment act and creating a new commonwealth environmental protection authority after coming under pressure from the party's Labor Environment Action Network, but is yet to provide details.

Miles said he had outlined his frustration about the lack of urgent commonwealth funding commitments in a letter to the federal environment minister, Josh Frydenberg.

Queensland faces a "dramatic escalation" in carbon pollution that guarantees Australia will fail to meet even its "weak" greenhouse targets unless the commonwealth sets a price on emissions, the state's environment minister, Steven Miles, has warned.