Western Australia's EPA has made a big call on a major gas expansion. Will state and federal governments back it up? | Adam Morton

The environmental regulator has a history of backing fossil fuels - that is why its preliminary view on Woodside's Browse project is extraordinaryFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe news that the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority is likely to recommend that a massive gas export development off the state's north-west shouldn't go ahead is remarkable, but shouldn't be.We don't know much about what the EPA told Woodside Energy in February about its Browse project off the state's Kimberley coast. All we have is a line that WAtoday extracted from the EPA - that it had formed a "preliminary view" that the proposal was "unacceptable".Sign up for Guardian Australia's free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...