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Environmental Protection Directorate within EHS seeks to safeguard the quality of the environment through effective regulation of activities that have the potential to impact on air, water and land.

This involves engagement with businesses and the public to provide information and advice; monitoring, recording, reporting and setting standards for compliance; issuing consents, licences and authorisations and enforcing legislation....

Enforcement is based on fair but firm regulation. View details of our Enforcement and Prosecution Policy ( pdf 92.6 KB ) Opens in New window

Air quality and climate change are now managed through the Department of the Environment’s Environmental Policy Division.

Pollution