Leading Australian oil and gas producer Santos is accused of misleading the market by âgreenwashingâ its environmental credentials in a landmark shareholder-led lawsuit filed in the Federal Court.
With mediation failing to resolve an expansive class action against the federal government over its use of allegedly toxic firefighting foam, a judge has charted a plan to avoid a “Brobdingnagian” trial and efficiently determine the claims of group members around eight military bases across Australia.
The Commonwealth has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it failed to take climate change into account when it renewed an agreement with NSW for logging in the coastal areas between Sydney and Queensland in 2018.
The federal government has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it failed to take into account the impact on climate change when it awarded an Empire Energy subsidiary a $21 million grant for gas exploration in the Northern Territory, two months after a landmark ruling found the government owes a duty of care to protect children from the risks of climate change.
A green activist who filed a group proceeding alleging the government failed to disclose the impacts of climate change to investors in sovereign bonds does not have a common interest with group members and should have her lawsuit declassed, a court has heard.
A resident groupâs last ditch attempt to prevent the NSW government from relocating a locally significant heritage building has been dismissed by the NSW Supreme Court of Appeal, paving the way for the development of a $915 million museum in Parramatta.
The Federal Minister for the Environment has announced plans to appeal a Federal Court judgment that found the government has a duty of care to protect Australian children from the impacts of climate change.Â
Class actions are the next battleground following Thursday’s Federal Court ruling that the government owes a duty of care to protect children from the risks of climate change, according to a number of legal experts.
Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine in Queensland has hit another potential snag, with the Federal Court on Tuesday sending the company’s moves to pump 12.5 billion litres of water a year from the Suttor River back to square one.
AGL Energy has dragged Greenpeace Australia Pacific to court for using its logo in a campaign that labelled the company “Australia’s biggest climate polluter” and accused it of “significant environmental breaches”.