Over 70 organisations signed a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling for a public inquiry into the approval of a new deep coal mine near Whitehaven, in Cumbria.
The letter, signed by environmental organisations and charities, including Catholic aid agency CAFOD, Greenpeace UK and the New Economics Foundation think tank, condemns the Prime Minister for not taking action and states that the decision to go ahead with the mine “undermines” UK leadership on climate action.
The credibility of the UK, a founder of the Powering Past Coal Alliance and this year's President of the COP26 climate summit, is at stake, they wrote.
