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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".
Ashurst has lured the global co-head and two partners from Baker McKenzie's renewable energy practice, giving the firm a boost in representing clients in the global transition towards more sustainable forms of energy.
Thousands of Indonesian seaweed farmers have won a class action against PTTEP Australasia over one of Australia's largest oil spills, with a judge finding the oil exploration company breached its duty of care to the farmers and damaged their livelihoods.
The Federal Government has argued a class action against the expansion of a northern NSW mine has "conspicuously failed" to show that the emissions would contribute to "catastrophic harm", but a judge has questioned the Commonwealth's contention that other countries would be responsible for the emissions.
Trial kicked off Tuesday in a landmark class action brought by teenagers seeking to halt the expansion of a Whitehaven coal mine in NSW, with the barrister for the teens arguing catastrophe was likely if the expansion was blessed by the Federal Minister for the Environment.
A Queensland activist group has come up trumps in a drawn-out legal battle against New Acland Coal's proposed expansion of a coal mine, with the High Court striking down previous lower court rulings giving it the green light.
A judge has issued a temporary injunction stopping roadworks along the Buangor and Ararat stretch of the Western Highway improvement project in Victoria ahead of a trial over the cultural significance of the area for its traditional owners.
The Federal Government has critised as "hopelessly defective" a lawsuit alleging it failed to disclose the impacts of climate change to investors in sovereign bonds, and the judge overseeing the matter has also raised concerns about the case.