If built, the plastics plant would pump air pollutants into surrounding communities and contribute more to climate change than three coal power plants. Corps announcement deals significant blow to project's backers.

"The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk."

Campaign group Culture Unstained argues the museum has adopted the oil industry’s tactics of “deflect and deny.”

Scottish climate activists gathered this weekend for their first "climate camp" in a decade to campaign against Scotland’s third largest polluter.

Local residents have been raising concerns about the impacts of the petrochemical complex, ranked Scotland's third biggest emitter, for years.

Campaigners have said they will appeal the decision and believe the government's plans are "more at risk of being cut back this autumn than ever".

Protesters in Parliament Square this morning said the government was failing to show enough leadership in the run-up to the UN summit, due to start in Glasgow in 100 days.

The proposed legislation has so far won the support of 110 MPs across eight political parties - but still has a long way to go.

In a letter to fossil fuel companies and government, a coalition of community groups warn of impacts to wildlife, livelihoods, and the climate if oil exploration goes forward.

At least 23 coal mine applications have been fought off by grassroots campaigns in recent years, with the latest victory at Dewley Hill outside Newcastle, writes Coal Action Network’s Isobel Tarr.