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Environment Minister Sussan Ley says she considered a climate change duty of care owed to young people when deciding to approve a Whitehaven coal project.

The Federal Court today scheduled a five-day hearing of a climate change test case, in which a group of teenagers are alleging it would cause them harm if Whitehaven's proposed Vickery coal mine secured EPBC Act approval.

Environment Minister Greg Hunt changed tack on carbon emissions when granting a revised approval for Adani's Carmichael coal mine, but that has not stopped a fresh Federal Court challenge being mounted today.

A Queensland farmer fined $118,000 for land clearing, has been refused special leave to argue before the High Court that the State's vegetation protection law was unjust.

A NSW court is set to re-assess the merits of a proposed coal mine expansion in a rare form of legal challenge brought by a group of environmentalists.

The peak body representing the upstream oil and gas industry has warned that expanding the EPBC Act's ability to consider the indirect impacts of a project could lead to courts becoming de facto regulators of greenhouse gas emissions.

• Garrett canvasses views on Anvil Hill coal mine decision
  
• Water diversions under EPBC Act scrutiny, says Wong
  
• Senate considers carbon sink forest tax concession
  
• Queensland proposes new housing standards
  
• Odour complaints lead to $25,000 fine
  
• NZ ministry issues summary of NZ trading bill changes
  
• Department of Climate Change offers graduate intake