After winning a key legal battle with the NSW EPA last year, a group known as the Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action is taking the state's Independent Planning Commission to court.
A senior NSW judge has rejected arguments by Santos that a community action group should pay its legal costs, after the group lost a climate change test case.
If Western Australia's Conservation Council wins a new Supreme Court case over a major Woodside LNG project, it could affect numerous other large-emitting projects.
Chief Justice Brian Preston of NSW's Land and Environment Court today rejected arguments that the consent for the Santos Narrabri coal seam gas project was invalid on greenhouse gas grounds.
The NSW Nature Conservation Council has launched a legal challenge against a new state water-sharing plan, on the grounds it was developed without properly considering climate change.
The NSW Court of Appeal has rejected arguments by a coal company that it was unlawfully refused consent for a mine because of invalid concerns about scope 3 emissions.
In a decision with important ramifications for NSW industry, a court today found the state's EPA has failed to fulfil its statutory duties on climate change, and ordered it to do more.
The Western Australian government has faced questions in Parliament over its decision to approve Woodside's greenhouse gas abatement program for its proposed Pluto LNG expansion.
Approvals relating to Woodside's Pluto project and the Waitsia 2 gas development are candidates for a new climate duty of care test case under consideration by the WA Conservation Council.
New Hope Group today suffered a comprehensive High Court defeat that means all aspects of its New Acland coal project – including its carbon emissions – must be relitigated.