If Friday's Gloucester mine ruling stands, companies seeking project approvals will have to do a lot more to explain their carbon emissions abatement strategies, say leading law firms.
NSW Environment Court Chief Judge Brian Preston today refused consent for a mine, saying the greenhouse gas emissions from extracting and burning its coal are unacceptable.
A Federal Court judge says a case brought by a super fund member who claims his fund didn't properly disclose climate change risks raises important public issues.
Climate change litigants are increasingly arguing their case by alleging infringement of environmental and human rights, according to the Chief Justice of the NSW Land and Environment Court.
The COAG Energy Council today appointed a leading renewables and climate change lawyer as an additional commissioner to the Australian Energy Market Commission.
Hearings start this week on a greenhouse gas challenge to a Peabody coal mine extension, based on alleged non-compliance with a decade-old state environmental policy.
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.