Climate

In a blow to the fossil fuel industry, Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change have won their court cases against plans to build a coal mine in Cumbria. Read our legal briefing and find out why the plans were unlawful, as well as destructive and unnecessary.

Friends of the Earth's legal challenge opposing the Cumbrian mine was successful on all grounds

The average annual energy bill will increase by 10% from October

Government must meet commitment to cut emissions by over two-thirds by 2030. says Friends of the Earth

Disability activist and a man who lost his home to coastal erosion join Friends of the Earth in Judicial Review

Revelation comes ahead of next week's legal challenge to government's climate adaptation plan

National Adaptation Programme failing in legal duty to protect people, property and infrastructure

The mine was approved by then Secretary of State for Communities, Michael Gove, in December 2022

Government agreement that planning permission was unlawfully granted boosts challenge

The mine was originally given the go ahead by then Levelling Up Secretary, Michael Gove, in December 2022