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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Damon Cronshaw

Mount Pleasant among big coal and gas projects in legal limbo

Tanya Plibersek in Parliament. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

Mount Pleasant open-cut coal mine near Muswellbrook is one of 18 major coal and gas proposals that federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek will reassess for its climate change impacts.

It follows a legal bid that could lead the minister to reject fossil-fuel burning projects due to climate change.

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