EPA refuses to waive controversial waste levy for Stockon beach clean-up

By Donna Page
Updated May 15 2018 - 9:54am, first published May 14 2018 - 6:00am

THE NSW EPA has refused to waive its controversial waste levy, that will add more than $1 million to the cost of cleaning up rubbish from an old tip site uncovered on Stockton beach, because the weather event that caused the environmental emergency was not severe enough.

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