Australian Coal Mine Blocked Over Climate Impact

One of Australia's environment courts has ruled against the country's largest independent coal producer, saying that its assessment of the impacts of a new mine should have included an assessment of its impact on climate change.

The campaign group Greenpeace has called the ruling "historic". Greenpeace has been demonstrating against the proposal of the Centennial Coal Company to build a new mine in New South Wales.

Justice Nicola Pain ruled on Monday that the environmental assessment, previously approved by the government, was void. She cited "a sufficiently proximate link" between coal mining and greenhouse gas emissions for the latter to be considered in the mine's assessment.