Bushfire survivors have launched legal action to try and force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Agency to develop a climate change policy.
Bushfire survivors in NSW say the state's EPA is not doing its job properly because it does not have a climate change policy
One survivor who has witnessed three devastating fire seasons firsthand says she does not need any more"wake-up calls" David Morris, chief executive of the Environmental Defenders Office, said his clients were calling on the EPA to better protect communities for the future. "There's a statutory mandate to protect the environment … but the EPA don't have a current policy to regulate greenhouse gas emissions."You can't be both required to protect the environment and then ignore its greatest threat.
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