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Friends of the Earth UK: High Court Agrees to Hear Coal Mine Legal Challenge
May 20, 2023
LONDON, England, May 20 -- Friends of the Earth UK issued the following news release:

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Friends of the Earth's legal challenges against a controversial new coal mine in West Cumbria has been given the green light.

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A High Court judge has given the go ahead for two legal challenges over the government's decision to grant planning permission for a controversial new coal mine in West Cumbria to proceed to a three-day hearing.

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