BY DAKOTA TAIT
An Upper Hunter environment group has launched legal action to stop the expansion of the Mount Pleasant coal mine at Muswellbrook.
The Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group is arguing the Independent Planning Commission failed to consider the impacts of emissions on air quality and the environment, as well as the social and economic footprint, when it approved the project.
The group is being represented by the Environmental Defenders Office.
The approval was earlier in the year delayed, when a new species of legless lizard was discovered, the Hunter Valley Delma.
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