{"id":623006,"date":"2026-04-22T06:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623006\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:53:09","slug":"western-australia-signs-epbc-mou-with-commonwealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/623006\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia signs EPBC MoU with Commonwealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western Australia is the first state to advance a bilateral agreement with the federal government to unify its environmental assessment processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environment and Water Minister Murray Watt and Premier Roger Cook signed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcceew.gov.au\/environment\/epbc\/approvals\/state-assessments\/wa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">memorandum of understanding<\/a>\u00a0(MoU) to develop and implement a bilateral assessment agreement, with the ambition for a bilateral approval agreement to follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) reforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themandarin.com.au\/307910-path-clear-to-establish-new-agencies-as-environmental-law-reforms-activated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">passed in December<\/a> created a pathway for states and territories to share information with the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia is the first state to advance a bilateral agreement with the federal government to unify its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,301879,15854,301880,54519,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-623006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-environmental-approvals","11":"tag-epbc","12":"tag-federal-state-relations","13":"tag-mineral-resources","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}