# Australia’s top court rules against coal mine expansion over climate harm

https://mins.news/en/item/89006

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-07 02:17 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/7/australia-top-court-rules-against-coal-mine-expansion-citing-climate-harm?traffic_source=rss

> Australia’s High Court has ordered the expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales to be halted, finding that planning authorities failed to require greenhouse-gas emissions to be minimised as far as practicable. Campaigners called the decision a binding national precedent requiring climate damage to be considered in fossil-fuel approvals. Mach Energy said it was disappointed but accepted the ruling.

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