High Court blocks plan for UK's first new deep coal mine in 30 years
The decision to approve the UK's first new deep coal mine in thirty years has been quashed in the High Court. Plans for the mine in Cumbria were approved by the Conservative government in 2022.
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But environmental campaigners mounted a legal challenge, saying all fossil fuel extraction should stop.
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