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

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 ...

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

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

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." Duncan ...