British court blocks controversial plans for third runway at Heathrow Airport on environmental grounds
A protest sign put up by a local campaign group is displayed as a plane flies past in the village of Harmondsworth, which could be partly demolished if a third runway is built at Heathrow Airport in London. September 13, 2019.
The court said the UK government that had given the Heathrow extension the green light in 2018 had failed to take into account the Paris Agreement to limit climate warming. The judge said that the government had not sought permission to appeal the ruling in the supreme court, meaning that it could now either rework the policy or choose to scrap the project.
The plan to build a third runway at Heathrow was approved by the government in 2018, but there has been a change of administration since then, and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson has historically been opposed to expanding the airport.
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