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New rules for antifouling paints
Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 11:42 am | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is reminding boaties and anyone else who paints boats of new rules for using antifouling paints. More >>
Submissions on herbicide with two new active ingredients
Monday, 8 June 2015, 12:11 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for submissions on an application for release of the herbicide GF-2687. This herbicide contains two active ingredients that are new to New Zealand, halauxifen methyl and florasulam. It is intended to ... More >>
EPA approves biopesticide Blossom Protect
Friday, 5 June 2015, 2:52 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
An Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Decision-making Committee has approved an application to import the biopesticide Blossom Protect, which contains two strains of Aureobasidium pullulans. This is the first application received by the EPA for ... More >>
Shell Todd Oil granted consent for Māui offshore drilling
Friday, 5 June 2015, 12:24 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has granted a marine consent to Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS) for 35 years to undertake activities relating to extracting, producing and transporting natural gas and condensate in and from the Māui natural ... More >>
Hearing for honeysuckle stem-boring beetle application
Wednesday, 27 May 2015, 1:54 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) advises a hearing is scheduled for an application to release the honeysuckle stem-boring beetle Oberea shirahatai, as part of a biological control programme against the weed Japanese honeysuckle. More >>
EPA approves biological control for the weed privet
Tuesday, 19 May 2015, 4:31 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved an application to release privet lace bug (Leptophya hospita) as a biological control agent for the weed privet (Ligustrum spp.). More >>
Mainman insecticide application approved
Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 11:40 am | Environmental Protection Authority
An Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) decision-making committee has approved with controls an application from ISK New Zealand Limited to manufacture or import the insecticide Mainman, which contains the new pesticide active ingredient flonacamid. More >>
EPA approves release of non-toxic Epichloë fungi
Friday, 8 May 2015, 11:05 am | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved an application to release 18 additional strains of non-toxic asexual Epichloë fungi. More >>
Submissions sought on modified reassessment for herbicide
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 3:22 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is calling for submissions on a modified reassessment of the herbicide Callisto. This is an already approved herbicide, which contains the active ingredient mesotrine. More >>
Approval for horticultural fungicide
Thursday, 23 April 2015, 2:35 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
An Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) decision-making committee has approved an application by ISK New Zealand Ltd for a fungicide that controls various fungal diseases in horticultural crops. More >>
Evaluation report on STOS marine consent application
Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 4:01 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) today released its in-house expert’s evaluation report on Shell Todd Oil Services’ (STOS) marine consent application for its Māui offshore facilities. More >>
Rob Forlong announces resignation as EPA Chief Executive
Friday, 10 April 2015, 4:26 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
Mr Forlong has been the Chief Executive of the EPA since its inception nearly four years ago, and prior to that, was the Chief Executive of the Environmental Risk Management Authority for six years. More >>
Notice of hearing on fungi to protect cereal crops
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 2:09 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is holding a hearing to decide on an application to release non-toxic Epichloe fungi. Epichloe endophytes could improve the resistance of cereal plants to insect pests, fungal diseases and drought. More >>
Have your say on new rules for importers and manufacturers
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 12:44 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority is inviting people to have a say on new rules that would require everyone who makes or imports a hazardous substance to supply their contact information. More >>
Importers and labs advised of extra 1080 controls
Tuesday, 17 March 2015, 9:22 am | Environmental Protection Authority
Importers, laboratories and other workplaces holding 1080 are being advised by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) on how to comply with the extra controls introduced by the Government last week. More >>
Have your say on honeysuckle stem-boring beetle
Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 12:56 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority invites submissions on an application to release the honeysuckle stem-boring beetle Oberea shirahatai, as part of a biological control programme against the weed Japanese honeysuckle. More >>
EPA refuses Chatham Rock Phosphate marine consent
Wednesday, 11 February 2015, 10:44 am | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has refused an application by Chatham Rock Phosphate Limited (CRP) for a marine consent to mine phosphorite nodules on the Chatham Rise. More >>
Notice of hearing for OPC substances reassessment
Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 4:49 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The EPA advises a hearing is scheduled for the modified reassessment of a bee control affecting five organophosphate and carbamate insecticides. In 2013 the EPA completed a reassessment of a number of OPCs and as a result controls over these substances ... More >>
Submission period opens on STOS marine consent application
Monday, 26 January 2015, 9:42 am | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has today opened the submission period on a marine consent application by Shell Todd Oil Services (STOS) to continue its offshore activities in the Māui natural gas field. More >>
EPA grants marine consent to OMV NZ Ltd
Thursday, 18 December 2014, 12:47 pm | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has granted a marine consent to OMV NZ Ltd to continue its development drilling programme in the Maari oil field in the South Taranaki Bight. More >>
