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Environment
Poppy Johnston

Coal mine challenge reaches Australia's highest court

Tony Lonergan and Wendy Wales are fighting a major expansion of a coal mine in the Upper Hunter. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

For the couple behind a coal mine expansion challenge that's reached three levels of courts over four years, every fraction of a degree of warming matters.

The Upper Hunter Valley region where Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan call home has already been see-sawing between drought, fires and floods.

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