Minister Plibersek has approved 3 coal mines in the last 2 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“3 coal mine approvals in the last 2 months show our environment laws are broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinister Plibersek should stop approving new coal mines and start working with the Greens to put a climate trigger in our environment laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Ensham coal mine will add 100 million tonnes of pollution and wreck critical koala and greater glider habitat, hurting native wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAustralians didn\u2019t vote for this, but Labor are captured by donations from the coal and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinister Plibersek can\u2019t do her job properly until we get a climate trigger to stop new coal and gas in its tracks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister Plibersek has approved 3 coal mines in the last 2 months. Greens spokesperson for the Environment Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said: “3 coal mine approvals in the last 2 months show our environment laws are broken. \u201cMinister Plibersek should stop approving new coal mines and start working with the Greens to put a climate trigger … Continue reading “PLIBERSEK APPROVES 3 COAL MINES IN 2 MONTHS”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21669,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions\/21669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}