{"id":28563,"date":"2024-08-20T01:17:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=28563"},"modified":"2024-08-20T01:17:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:17:01","slug":"environment-laws-too-weak-as-climate-court-case-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/environment-laws-too-weak-as-climate-court-case-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment laws ‘too weak’ as climate court case dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The announcement today <\/a>that the Australian Conservation Foundation will drop its legal action against Woodside\u2019s mammoth gas project at Scarborough is evidence Australia\u2019s environment laws are \u201ctoo weak\u201d say the Greens, who are pushing for a climate trigger as part of Labor\u2019s Nature Positive legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens spokesperson for Environment, Manager of Business in the Senate:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cACF dropping this legal action is proof positive that our environment laws are weak and broken because they fail to tackle climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that there is no obligation for the Environment Minister to consider climate damage when approving another massive gas field for Woodside shows just how broken our environment laws are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe could fix the climate holes in the laws with a Climate Trigger that would stop new coal and gas, but the Albanese Government is talking out both sides of their mouth on the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Government will have to decide: do a dirty deal with Peter Dutton to further weaken our environment laws, or work with the Greens to actually protect nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Greens won\u2019t rubber stamp laws that fast-track destruction & pollution. We need to end native forest logging and to stop new fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI urge the Labor Government to do right by our kids and by threatened species, instead of pandering to vested interests in the logging and fossil fuel lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The announcement today that the Australian Conservation Foundation will drop its legal action against Woodside\u2019s mammoth gas project at Scarborough is evidence Australia\u2019s environment laws are \u201ctoo weak\u201d say the Greens, who are pushing for a climate trigger as part of Labor\u2019s Nature Positive legislation. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens spokesperson for Environment, Manager of Business … Continue reading “Environment laws ‘too weak’ as climate court case dropped”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28564,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions\/28564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}