Bushfire survivors have launched legal action to try and force the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority to develop a climate change policy. The case in the NSW Land and Environment Court has been brought by the Environmental Defenders Office on behalf of the advocacy group, Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action. David Morris, chief executive of the Environmental Defenders Office, said his clients were calling on the EPA to better protect communities for the future.
“As the body pre-eminently responsible for the protection of the environment, you can’t successfully achieve that [protection] if you’re ignoring the greatest threat to the environment,” he said. “We’re simply asking the court to tell the EPA go and create environmental quality objectives with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, regulate the pollution and use their existing powers to do so.” Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action president Jo Dodds said the 40 or so members of the group had experienced a bushfire firsthand. “We don’t feel like this is being taken seriously enough,” she said.
A spokesperson for the NSW EPA said court documents from the Environmental Defender’s Office on behalf of the Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action had been received and were under consideration. The case is listed in the NSW Land and Environment Court in Sydney for May 8, 2020.
Source: ABC
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