AUSTRALIA — The state’s environmental watchdog is being restrained from taking legal action against the government’s logging agency, despite its concerns that Forestry New South Wales (NSW) may be breaching environmental regulations by logging in forests left vulnerable by bushfire. Due to a memorandum outlining how government agencies may take legal action against each other, the NSW Environment Protection Authority is only able to take action against Forestry Corp after it has breached logging regulations, rather than using an injunction to prevent it from doing so in the first place, a budget estimates hearing heard on Tuesday morning. “So we have to lose the trees [before we can act]… why do we have to see the damage first?” NSW MP Justin Field asked the EPA chief executive Tracy Mackey during the hearing.