A class action against Environment Minister Sussan Ley, launched by teenagers, adds to a raft of climate change litigation now underway on multiple fronts.
Highlights include court rulings in two states, NSW manuals on biodiversity assessment and floodplain risk, and new waste strategies in two states. Job listings include positions with the Clean Energy Regulator.
The COAG Energy Council today appointed a leading renewables and climate change lawyer as an additional commissioner to the Australian Energy Market Commission.
There might be sound reasons for disagreeing with the EPBC approval granted to Adani for its proposed coal mine, but it wasn't unlawful, three Federal Court judges said today.
The High Court has refused to consider whether Queensland's Appeal Court wrongly dealt with coal-burning emissions when hearing a dispute over GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine.
Environment Minister Greg Hunt changed tack on carbon emissions when granting a revised approval for Adani's Carmichael coal mine, but that has not stopped a fresh Federal Court challenge being mounted today.
The Federal Court has ruled that the Commonwealth Bank didn't have to put to its AGM a shareholder resolution expressing concern at its approach to carbon emissions.
A Queensland farmer fined $118,000 for land clearing, has been refused special leave to argue before the High Court that the State's vegetation protection law was unjust.
The ACCC remains unsure to what extent refrigerant suppliers rorted the carbon price, but its latest pricing report has cleared airlines and the construction industry of any wrongdoing.