{"id":23170,"date":"2023-09-28T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=23170"},"modified":"2023-09-28T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T10:12:14","slug":"climate-trigger-needed-amid-climate-council-report-new-coal-project-approval-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/climate-trigger-needed-amid-climate-council-report-new-coal-project-approval-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CLIMATE TRIGGER NEEDED AMID CLIMATE COUNCIL REPORT &#038; NEW COAL PROJECT APPROVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have today backed an expert&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-pukite-dtdkhihdlr-y\/\">report from the Climate Council<\/a>&nbsp;calling for climate change to be a key objective in new environment laws, as Labor signs off approval for the new South Wambo coal project in NSW. The Greens have slammed the Government for approving more fossil fuel projects as we head into a hot dry summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Spokesperson for the Environment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnother day, another new coal project approved by the Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens welcome the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media.greens.org.au\/t\/y-l-pukite-dtdkhihdlr-j\/\">Climate Council\u2019s expert report today&nbsp;<\/a>calling for climate change to be a key objective within our environment laws. That\u2019s why we are calling on the Government to work with us on our Climate Trigger Bill currently before the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery time the Minister approves a new coal or gas project it makes the climate crisis worse. That means more frequent and extreme bushfires and extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCoal and gas approvals wreck our River Murray and our Great Barrier Reef<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia\u2019s environment laws are broken. We need laws that stop pollution from new coal and gas projects. The Labor government should work with the Greens to fix them with a Climate Trigger that would new stop coal and gas in its tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Minister Plibersek has one job as the Environment Minister, but rather than protecting the environment, she keeps giving green light to big coal and gas mines and making pollution worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have today backed an expert&nbsp;report from the Climate Council&nbsp;calling for climate change to be a key objective in new environment laws, as Labor signs off approval for the new South Wambo coal project in NSW. The Greens have slammed the Government for approving more fossil fuel projects as we head into a hot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/28\/climate-trigger-needed-amid-climate-council-report-new-coal-project-approval-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CLIMATE TRIGGER NEEDED AMID CLIMATE COUNCIL REPORT &#038; NEW COAL PROJECT APPROVAL&#8221;<\/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-23170","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\/23170","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=23170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23171,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions\/23171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}