Call EPA 24 hours a day.1300 372 842 or 1300 EPA VIC
Air quality is important to the health and wellbeing of all Victorians. Most air pollution comes from industry, motor vehicles and domestic wood burning.
EPA plays a role in protecting the community from noise pollution.
Human health and wellbeing relies on the quality of our environment every day.
Our reporting system lets you dob in litterers in cars.
Many industrial activities require works approvals and licences from EPA.
EPA helps protect Victorians’ health from potential environmental hazards.
EPA works to protect Victoria from pollution during major infrastructure projects.
EPA periodically reviews environmental policy and regulation.
Guidance for business and industry, including licensing, works approvals and planning.
Information about the fees and charges levied by EPA.
EPA’s organisational strategy sets out five goals and how we'll work with Victorians to achieve them.
EPA welcomes the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into EPA.
EPA works with the community, businesses and other organisations to protect the environment.
EPA recognises staff who are leaders in the areas of air quality, inland water, marine water, waste, landfill, land and groundwater, and odour.
The process to submit complaints about the conduct of an EPA authorised officer.
We thoroughly review our operations to identify activities that generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This includes our direct activities, as well as those that occur upstream and downstream of these direct activities. Once all sources have been identified, they are categorised based on the Corporate Standard's approach to accounting and reporting, using scopes (Figure 1).
Scopes help to distinguish between direct and indirect emissions sources. The Corporate Standard defines three scopes:
Direct GHG emissions that occur from sources that are controlled by the organisation. The following scope 1 emission sources were identified as part of our review:
Indirect GHG emissions associated with purchased energy commodities including electricity and steam. Scope 2 emissions physically occur at the facility where the energy commodity is produced. The following scope 2 emission sources were identified as part of our review:
All other indirect GHG emissions that are a consequence of the activities of the organisation, but occur from sources not owned or controlled by the organisation. These refer to emissions from activities that are upstream or downstream including the supply chain and waste management. The following scope 3 emissions were identified as part of our review:
Page last updated on 9 Sep 2019