Queensland's Court of Appeal has rejected arguments that a lower court erred in assessing the harm caused by burning coal from GVK Hancock's proposed Alpha mine.
The Queensland Land Court has recommended the State Government approve Adani's Carmichael coal mine, but only if it improves its water monitoring and "controls or regulates" threats to an endangered bird species.
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 Queensland Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to a Land Court decision that paved the way for GVK Hancock's Alpha coal mine to clear state approval hurdles.
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.
In an important test case, a public interest litigant is asking the Federal Court to rule on the rights of Commonwealth Bank shareholders to put resolutions on carbon risk to the bank's AGM.
Greenpeace and WWF have written to directors of companies including BHP Billiton, GlencoreXstrata, Chevron and Conoco Philips asking whether they expect to be personally indemnified by their companies and insurers against potential lawsuits over carbon emissions and climate change.
Queensland's Supreme Court will for the first time rule on whether the state's Environmental Protection Act obliges the environment department to consider emissions from coal burning, in a dispute over approval of Hancock Coal's Alpha mine.