ENVIRONMENT

Coal concern in climate change ruling

THE federal environment minister Sussan Ley has a duty to avoid causing children harm through global warming when approving Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery extension project in New South Wales, the federal court has found after an action brought by eight teenage students.

The Federal Court found that the environment minister had a duty to take reasonable care to avoid causing personal injury or death to Australian children by climate change.

The Federal Court found that the environment minister had a duty to take reasonable care to avoid causing personal injury or death to Australian children by climate change.

In his initial Sharma v Minister for the Environment Federal Court judgement on May 27, justice Mordecai Bromberg found carbon emissions released from mining and burning fossil fuels would exacerbate climate...

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