In an open letter to the Berejiklian government, the association says TransGrid should have detailed other options in its EIS to the building of two giant overhead transmission lines.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a severe heatwave to set in over Friday to Sunday with extreme conditions expected in some areas along the NSW coast.

Hundreds of forestry jobs are at "imminent" risk because of the lack of available timber following last summer's bushfires, the state-owned logging company warned in a letter to the environmental watchdog.

Alpine cattle graziers and environmentalists form an unlikely alliance in a bid to stop logging in Victoria’s high country.

The NSW SES received more than 1100 calls for help on Thursday, as the big wet brings flash-flooding, landslips and hazardous surf alerts.