In December 2022, planning permission was granted by the secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ("SoS") to extract coal from a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. The ...

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Friday following a legal challenge brought by environmental campaigners. Friends of the Earth ...

LONDON (AFP) — The U.K. announced Thursday that it would introduce legislation to ban new coal mines, as the Labour government ramps up its plans to make Britain a clean energy leader. The government ...

The UK’s approval for the first deep coal mine in over three decades is unlawful, a London judge ruled, scrapping the current planning permission for the controversial development. Lawyers for Friends ...

Gareth Fearn currently receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and previously from the ESRC. Pancho Lewis receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is a member of the UK ...

Coal tip safety must be fully funded to keep communities safe from another Aberfan disaster, a Plaid Cymru MP has said. In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the ...