The ABC can reveal details of an 'extraordinary' phone call by Mark McGowan to the state's independent environmental protection boss in which he claims the former premier pressured him to drop tough new emissions guidelines.
abc.net.au/news/mark-mcgowan-phone-call-epa-emissions-targets-tom-hatton/102800212Western Australia's former environmental protection chief has made the "extraordinary" claim that the previous premier Mark McGowan pressured him to withdraw tough new emissions guidelines.
Watching a lack of effective policy at a federal level but also at home, Dr Hatton said he and his fellow EPA board members saw the challenge as urgent."I think we were the only jurisdiction in Australia at the time without even an aspirational state reduction target and the state's emissions were going up more than any other jurisdiction in Australia," he said.
"It wasn't a very long phone call. It was a very direct, very straightforward request that he did not want us to continue with those guidelines and wanted us to withdraw them," Dr Hatton told the ABC.
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