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The high court found NSW is responsible for emissions from burning exported coal.

What message does it send when the government can step in and bypass the law?

Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here As someone who lost their home in the black summer bushfires, I was buoyed by the high court finding in favour of a small community group in the Hunter Valley earlier this month.

Led by two retired science teachers, Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan, the Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group took on a massive coal corporation and won .

As a fellow schoolteacher, I felt a particular sense of p