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.
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.
In a decision worth millions of dollars to Centennial Coal, the NSW Supreme Court has ruled that a 2002 contract allows it to pass through to Delta Electricity a portion of its carbon charges.