Friends of the Irish Environment brought peat licence challenge

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Friends of the Irish Environment brought a High Court challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s acceptance of Harte Peat Limited’s peat-extraction licence application, in proceedings recorded in a judgment delivered on 16 March 2022. The challenge sought to contest the application’s acceptance under environmental and planning law.