Environmental assessment and permitting Archives

177 Cases found

Hanuman Laxman Aroskar v. Union of India

At issue: Whether the Indian government's approval of a new airport adequately considered environmental impacts

Jurisdictions:

India
- Supreme Court

Friends of the Earth v. UK Export Finance

At issue: Whether the UK government's decision to provide financing to a liquid natural gas project in Mozambique violated climate commitments

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Conservation Council of Western Australia v. Hatton and Woodside

At issue: Whether the state EPA's allowing expanded natural gas sourcing violated the state Environmental Protection Act due to environmental and climate impacts

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Western Australia
  - Supreme Court

KEPCO Bylong Australia v. Independent Planning Commission and Bylong Valley Protection Alliance

At issue: Whether a planning commission's rejection of a coal mine on sustainability and climate grounds was unlawful

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- New South Wales
  - Land and Environment Court

Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport (on National Policy Statement)

At issue: Whether the UK government's national policy statement on road building must be reassessed in light of new, more ambitious climate targets

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Transport Action Network v. Secretary of State for Transport and Highway England Company (on Roads Investment Strategy)

At issue: Whether the UK government's Second Roads Investment Strategy unlawfully fails to consider climate and air pollution impacts

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division

Center for Food and Adequate Living Rights et al. v. Tanzania and Uganda

At issue: Whether agreements to build the East African Crude Oil Pipeline violate environmental and human rights impact assessment requirements

Jurisdictions:

East African Court of Justice

Thomas v. EPA

At issue: Whether environmental permit that allowed oil exploration and production for 23 years violated Guyanese environmental regulations limiting such permits to five years

Jurisdictions:

Guyana
- Supreme Court

Carballo, et al. v. State of the Province of Buenos Aires and the Provincial Agency for Sustainable Development

At issue: Plaintiffs alleged irregularities in permitting for thermoelectric plant.

Jurisdictions:

Argentina
- Administrative Court of Azul

Johnston v Bass Coast Shire Council

At issue: Court considered climate change in assessing development permit

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Victoria
  - Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Sharma and others v. Minister for the Environment

At issue: Youth sought injunction to block coal project.

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Federal Court of Australia

Cherry Tree Wind Farm Pty Ltd v Mitchell Shire Council

At issue: Challenge to wind farm

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Victoria
  - Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Australian Conservation Foundation Incorporated v Minister for the Environment and Energy

At issue: Environmental group challenged coal mine

Jurisdictions:

Australia
- Federal Court of Australia

Deutsche Umwelthilfe v. Stralsund Mining Authority

At issue: Environmental group challenged natural gas pipeline permit

Jurisdictions:

Germany
- Supreme administrative court of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Instituto Socioambiental et al v. IBAMA and the Federal Union

At issue: Plaintiffs sought reversal of an act issued by the federal environmental agency that eased requirements for the exportation of timber.

Jurisdictions:

Brazil
- 7th Federal Environmental and Agrarian Court of the Judiciary Section of Amazonas

Vince et al. v. Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy et al.

At issue: Plaintiffs sought review of energy national policy statements in light of UK's new climate commitment and the Paris Agreement.

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - Planning Court, Queen's Bench Division

Ecology Action, et al. v. Minister of Environment and Climate Change

At issue: Environmental groups challenged approval of exploratory drilling, including on climate grounds

Jurisdictions:

Canada
- Federal Court

Fridays for Future Estonia v. Eesti Energia

At issue: Environmental group challenged issuance of construction permit for an oil plant.

Jurisdictions:

Estonia
- Tartu Administrative Court

Friends of the Irish Environment v. The Government of Ireland, et al.

At issue: Whether Irish Government inadequately considered National Planning Framework's climate impacts.

Jurisdictions:

Ireland
- High Court of Ireland

Packham v. Secretary of State for Transport

At issue: Halt railway project on the ground that GHGs had not been adequately considered.

Jurisdictions:

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - Court of Appeal

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division