Contentious plans to open the UK's first new coal mine in decades appeared doomed Friday after it emerged the new Labour government will not defend the project's previous approval in court.

The project would have been the UK's first new deep coal mine in more than 30 years. Following the grant of permission, Friends of the Earth and South Lakes Action on Climate Change filed court ...

The head of the mining company sat side-by-side in court with the climate campaigners that want to stop him opening the UK’s first deep coal mine in 30 years. The judge will give a decision in ...

Environmental groups have called for a mining company to "break its silence" over a controversial coal mine. Plans to build the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years were quashed in ...