Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

groundWork Trust & Vukani Environmental Justice Alliance Movement in Action v Minister of Environmental Affairs & Others (Highveld Priority Area #DeadlyAir judgment)

Judgments→High Courts

18 March 2022

Minister Creecy withdraws amendment to EIA Regulations requiring consent from landowners for environmental authorisations

What's New?

4 March 2022

Christian John Adams & Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy & Others (West Coast Seismic Survey) Part A – Interdict – March 2022

Judgments→High Courts

2 March 2022

Open for Comment: Draft Regulations for Implementing and Enforcing Priority Area Air Quality Management Plans

What's New?

11 February 2022

Open for comment: Electricity Regulation Amendment Bill

What's New?

10 February 2022

Western Cape Biodiversity Act 6 of 2021

Legislation→Provincial Legislation→Western Cape

12 January 2022

Changes to the EAPASA Regulations – more delay for registration and oversight. Comment due by 21 February 2022

What's New?

31 December 2021

Sustaining the Wild Coast & Others v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy & Others (Wild Coast Seismic Survey) Part A – interdict judgment

Judgments→High Courts

28 December 2021

Samancor Chrome Ltd v North West Chrome Mining (Pty) Ltd and Others

Judgments→Supreme Court of Appeal

24 December 2021

Challenges to Shell’s seismic blasting on South Africa’s Wild Coast

Case Watch

6 December 2021

Elderberry Investments (Pty) Ltd and Another v Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs and Others (2 December 2021)

Judgments→High Courts

2 December 2021

National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Reports of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (NECER Reports)

Government Documents

2 December 2021