The Supreme Court has today (20 June 2024) given judgment in the case of Finch v Surrey County Council & Others. This case concerns the correct application of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process to assessing the ‘downstream’ greenhouse gas emissions from new oil development.| www.theoep.org.uk
Labour has been urged to clarify its stance on the UK’s first deep coal mine in more than 30 years – as it fights an election campaign that has put clean energy at the fore. The proposed mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, would extract 2.8 million tonnes of coking coal a year from under the Irish […]| DeSmog
Judges in the Court of Appeal have ruled that Surrey County Council acted lawfully in its approval of an onshore oil development, despite ignoring emissions produced when the fuel is eventually used. Campaigners welcomed a decision on Thursday from one of the three judges, however, who said the council had failed to consider the full […]| DeSmog
The county of Cumbria in northern England is the battleground for a war raging over plans to build a new coal mine.| Al Jazeera
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