Environment Protection Authority - North West Region
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Waste Waste impacts arrive from municipal, commercial and industrial sources. Get involved Report pollution EPA relies on the community to let us know about pollution and environmental hazards. Expertise Framework program EPA recognizes staff who are leaders in the areas of air quality, inland water, marine water, waste, landfill, land and groundwater, and dour. EPA works with the community, businesses and other organizations to keep the environment. EPA’s Expertise Framework Program appoints staff considered and recognized as leaders in the areas of air quality, inland water, marine water, waste, landfill, land and groundwater, and dour as EPA’s principal experts’. EPA shares the Victorian Government’s vision of a stronger environmental regulator, better equipped to confront new and emerging environmental challenges, and is committed to implementing change in line with community, industry and government expectations. The Victorian Government committed to a major public inquiry into EPA in 2014. This is a major reform initiative which is anticipated to receive five years to complete. The establishment of a board requires legislative change, but to get things moving the government has put in place an interim board to bear strategic oversight of the development of a new organizational strategy and the initial reforms. Busy with Victoria’s healthy established emergency management sector, the Chief Environmental Scientist will play a key role in responding to emerging and critical issues, providing Victorians with the information they need to make an informed decision about their environment in an emergency. Along with reporting our environmental performance externally through our annual report, EPA’s EMS is reviewed every year by the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability as portion of a strategic and public evaluation of the way the Victorian Government’s departments and agencies address their own environmental outcomes and the needs of climate change. In 1998 EPA established Green Stars, a crossorganisational environment committee, to implement environmental management programs, prosper and implement actions to improve EPA’s environmental performance, and monitor and report on EPA’s environmental performance. The program appoints staff recognized as leaders in the areas of air quality, inland water, marine water, waste, landfill, land and groundwater, and dour as EPA’s principal experts’. Each principal expert is rewarded and provided with program specific learning and development opportunities that promote their development in their specialist area. Each principal expert leads and mentors an expertise community within the organization that focuses on their environmental area. After university, he worked for the Environment Agency (England and Wales) for seven years, specializing in regulating landfills, waste treatment and major industry sites. In this role, he was appointed regional specialist for waste treatment and landfill and worked in the agency’s national landfill gas team. In his role as principal expert, Nick is building EPA’s technical capability by training staff in landfill gas management, leach ate management, landfill operations, landfill environmental monitoring and landfill rehabilitation and aftercare. He has worked for government, industry and research sectors to comprehend marine environment impacts. Randall joined EPA in 2005 and was appointed the Marine Water Principal Expert in 2014. Her area of focus is sustainable waste management, including the chemistry and impacts of contaminants in waste streams, including contaminated soils. Your environment is our labor environment. As Victoria's autonomous environmental regulator, EPA sets and enforces good environmental standards, supports community aspirations, and encourages industries to enhance their environmental performance. The operation and rehabilitation processes proposed for the north segment would not labor with a smaller area and a shorter life span (i.e. Technical experts were appointed to thoroughly assess each of these issues and bear comprehensive advice to EPA to aid with its decision making.