Today we’ve had the brilliant news that the UK government will not defend the last government’s decision to approve the Rosebank oil field in a court case challenging its legality. It’s not yet clear if the oil company Equinor or the regulator that signed off Rosebank’s approval (the NSTA) will defend the case. If they do, the legal challenge will still move through the Scottish courts. But the government’s concession makes it even more likely that the decision to approve the field will be declared unlawful and need to be remade. The new government will then have the chance to stop Rosebank once and for all.