Approval for Britain’s first coal mine in 30 years has been quashed by the High Court in a landmark victory for climate ...

Mr Justice Holgate said arguments in favour of supporting the decision to grant planning permission for the site at ...

The judge ruled that approval for Whitehaven coal mine in Cumbria, granted by former communities secretary Michael Gove in ...

Mr Justice Holgate said arguments in favour of supporting the decision to grant planning permission for the site at Whitehaven were ‘unsustainable’.

Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years have been quashed. Two campaign groups had brought legal ...

Climate campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE) and South Lakes Action on Climate Change (SLACC) took legal action over the ...

Mr Justice Holgate sided with green activists and ruled planning permission should never have been given to the development in Whitehaven, Cumbria. He said the previous government's decision to ...

Mr Justice Holgate said in a ruling on Friday that giving the go-ahead for the development at Whitehaven in Cumbria was “legally flawed”. Climate campaign group Friends of the Earth (FoE ...

In his judgement, Mr Justice Holgate said: "The assumption that the proposed mine would not produce a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions, or would be a net zero mine, is legally flawed." ...