EIA

The legal challenge was based on a ruling, Finch v Surrey County Council, made in June 2024 which ruled that downstream emissions from the burning of fossil fuels extracted at a site or development must be assessed as part of an EIA for a planning application.

If a horse tests positive for EIA, they can be quarantined for life or euthanized.

Trainer Heath Taylor has had to euthanize seven horses after an outbreak of EIA at his Los Alamitos barn.

Horses with EIA have that virus mostly for the rest of their life, meaning an interminable quarantine or euthanasia.

EIA is caused by insects, usually flies.