why the environment minister is being forced to reconsider climate-related impacts of pending fossil fuel approvals
- Written by: Laura Schuijers, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney
ShutterstockA non-profit group is imploring the new federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to consider the climate change impacts of 19 fossil fuel projects currently pending approval, drawing on a rarely used legal provision that will require her to reconsider the findings of her predecessors.
The minister will be forced to either confirm...
