It’s time for the government to come up with a serious plan to tackle the climate crisis 🌍📄

RT if you agree 🔁

Homes to fight the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis 🌍🏘️

We’ll be in court with @rights_climate on 18 June to challenge Michael Gove’s new rules blocking energy-efficient homes 📅
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High Court: 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍
Tories: 🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️🛢️
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Water companies must be held to account. RT if you agree.
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We're hiring for...
💼 Legal Director
⚖️ Legal Manager
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😶 A company that landed £5.3m of contracts through the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has gone into liquidation
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I wrote to Michael Gove to support legal action by Good Law Project & Rights : Community : Action over a building standards policy which is delaying action on fuel poverty and the climate crisis. We need homes fit for the future, not more green rollbacks. Join me. action.goodlawproject.org/write-michael-…

📣 Good Law Project is looking for a new Legal Director 📣

At the risk of sounding like an MoD job ad, this job changed my life - it could change yours too!

If you care about social change & want to use the law to deliver a better world…👇👇👇

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“Sustainability isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity” – Kevin McCloud

We’ve got a date at the High Court in June with @rights_climate to unlock the next generation of green homes 🌍 🏘️
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🔴 NEW | BP and Shell ‘Shaped’ UK Carbon Tax Proposals, Private Emails Show

Internal documents expose how oil and gas majors were given the chance to influence a report by the Policy Exchange think tank.

📝 Adam Bychawski
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A week ago today, the High Court ruled that the Tories’ net zero strategy wasn’t fit for purpose ❌

But what does that mean for them – and for the planet? ⚖️

📅 DATE IN COURT CONFIRMED

Michael Gove’s guidance to local authorities is a policy disaster. We’re heading to the High Court in June with @rights_climate to unlock the next generation of green homes 🌍 🏘️
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This is an absolutely damning report on the decline of our rivers, lakes and coastal waters.

And following Brexit, the Government hasn't even put in place consistent monitoring to get a grasp of the scale of the crisis😠⬇️

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1 Supreme Court judge
5 Court of Appeal judges
8 High Court judges
~150 KCs

The Garrick Club will admit women for the first time. But what does it say for our legal system that so many senior figures were members of this exclusive club?

✍️ @jessothomson:
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“While the BBC launders Policy Exchange as ‘centre right’, and the charities so-called regulator sits on its hands, the revealed reality is that Policy Exchange is acting like a front for the oil and gas industry.”
-Jo Maugham

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🔎 🔎 INVESTIGATION

An apartment block in Chelsea linked to trafficking and prostitution has landed Christopher Moran with a hefty tax bill. But he’s still a director of the Conservative Party’s property portfolio 👀
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On Friday, the High Court told the government to rewrite its failing plan to reach net zero.

And what did the Tories do?

The net zero department handed out 31 exploration and drilling licences to oil and gas companies the same day.

🛢️ New story:
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BREAKING
Tory Party property director Christopher Moran hit with £4.5m tax bill over his own property!

Tories dodged £600k stamp duty buying properties through offshore

Moran donated c £500,000 to Tories ⁦Good Law Project⁩

BUT Angela Rayner 🙄 goodlawproject.org/tory-property-…

Last night, the Garrick Club voted to admit women after 193 years of exclusion.

But can the connections senior legal figures make there be squared with a fair justice system?

@jessothomson examines the implications in this week’s Brief Thoughts:
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