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Environment group to challenge Mount Pleasant expansion over concerns for climate, legless lizards

A Hunter Valley environmental group is launching legal action against a major coal mining project, arguing it will worsen climate change and threaten a unique species of legless lizard. 

MACH Energy was given approval this year from the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) for its Mount Pleasant Optimisation project near Muswellbrook, allowing it to expand and continue mining until 2048.

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