ScienceHunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate case

Australia’s High Court has rejected MACH Energy’s appeal and upheld the decision overturning the proposed expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine in Muswellbrook. A majority ruled that planners had to consider greenhouse gas emissions from coal exported and burned overseas, a decision advocates say creates a national precedent for fossil fuel projects in New South Wales.

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