澳大利亚最高法院以3:2的多数意见驳回了MACH能源公司对其Mount Pleasant煤矿扩采项目的上诉，维持新南威尔士州上诉法院的原判1。这是澳大利亚最高法院首次以气候变化为由推翻大型化石燃料项目的案件1。法院认定新南威尔士州独立规划委员会未能充分考虑该项目所产生的范围3排放（指煤炭出口后在境外燃烧产生的排放）的减排措施1。
Mount Pleasant煤矿的扩采计划将使其年产能翻倍至2100万吨，并延续运营至2048年1。该项目预计产生的排放中，98%为范围3排放1。社区组织Dams Heg经过四年多的诉讼最终获胜1。该组织主席Wendy Wales表示："我们不能挖煤、运往海外、看着它加剧气候变化，然后假装后果与我们无关"1。
Australia's High Court has delivered a historic decision by rejecting MACH Energy's appeal to expand the Mount Pleasant coal mine in New South Wales, marking the first time the nation's highest court has struck down a major fossil fuel project on climate grounds.1 The court voted 3–2 to uphold a previous decision by the NSW Court of Appeal, determining that the state's independent planning committee failed to consider mitigation measures for scope 3 emissions—the greenhouse gases released when exported coal is burned overseas.1
The Mount Pleasant expansion would have doubled production capacity to 21 million tonnes annually and extended operations until 2048, with an estimated 98 percent of total emissions classified as scope 3 emissions.1 The community group Dams Heg, which brought the legal challenge, secured victory after more than four years of litigation.1 Dams Heg Chair Wendy Wales stated: "We cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it exacerbate climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us."1
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