UK's First New Coal Mine in 30 Years Faces Legal Challenge

Climate campaigners are challenging the UK’s approval of the first new coal mine in the country in three decades, with the High Court beginning hearings on the case on Tuesday. The UK’s previous Conservative government approved in December 2022 the Woodhouse Colliery project in Whitehaven, northwest England, developed by West Cumbria Mining.

The UK’s new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Angela Rayner, has accepted there was an “error of law” in the approval from December 2022. This could help the case of the climate campaign groups, which had filed two separate – but related – legal challenges against the government’s permission for the coal mine. Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change SLACC are challenging the permit and the High Court is hearing the case this week.

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