Late last week, the NSW Land and Environment Court refused approval for a new coal mine outside the town of Gloucester in the Upper Hunter Valley in a decision that the NSW Environmental Defenders’ Office is calling a ‘landmark legal win for climate and community‘.

While in many ways this decision was uncontroversial — in that it merely upheld an earlier ministerial decision — Chief Justice Preston’s judgment was significant in the Australian context both for its extensive reference to climate change and for his honour’s clear acceptance of the science.

Read more over at Eureka Street.