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NSW coal mines forced to consider global emissions · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristen Amitt with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. New South Wales coal miners will
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  Speaker 1: need to consider the global impacts of carbon emissions after
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  Speaker 1: the nation's highest court handed down a landmark ruling on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The High Court ruled in favour of opponents to the
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  Speaker 1: expansion of a coal mine at Mount Pleasant, south of Sydney,
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  Speaker 1: arguing planning applications should include consideration of the impact of
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  Speaker 1: emissions that cause climate change. three of the five High
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  Speaker 1: Court justices upheld an earlier decision by the NSW Court
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  Speaker 1: of Appeal. That came after a community group argued so-called
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  Speaker 1: downstream emissions contribute to domestic climate change and found the
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  Speaker 1: NSW Independent Planning Commission should have imposed conditions aimed at
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  Speaker 1: reducing downstream emissions when it approved the mine's expansion. Mack Energy,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the Mount Pleasant mine, said in a
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  Speaker 1: statement it was, quote, disappointed and would carefully review the
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  Speaker 1: High Court's decision. American death row inmate Krista Pike is
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  Speaker 1: reportedly awake and speaking after her scheduled execution was botched
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  Speaker 1: last week. 50-year-old Pike was sentenced to death for the
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  Speaker 1: 1995 murder of her classmate, Colleen Slemmer. She was said
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  Speaker 1: to be the first woman executed in the state of
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee in more than two centuries. but survived two doses
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  Speaker 1: of pentobarbital before being hospitalized on September 30. Her lawyers
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  Speaker 1: said on Tuesday she's, quote, conscious speaking and continues to
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  Speaker 1: receive critical medical care, while being, quote, handcuffed and shackled
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  Speaker 1: to the bed. They said her prognosis is unclear at
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  Speaker 1: this stage. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee paused executions in the
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  Speaker 1: state until the end of the year and ordered a
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  Speaker 1: review of the failed executions. Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at Melbourne's
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  Speaker 1: State Library on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the October 7,
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  Speaker 1: 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas militants, where 1,200 Jews
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  Speaker 1: were killed and 250 more were taken hostage. Around 30
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  Speaker 1: protesters gathered on the library steps but didn't speak with media.
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  Speaker 1: They played a song by the rapper Macklemore, who was
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  Speaker 1: dropped as a support act from Ed Sheeran's tour over
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  Speaker 1: his support of Palestine. Check out those stories live right
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  Speaker 1: now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: thing in the morning for our look at how October
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  Speaker 1: 7 is remembered around the world and here in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here, Thursday morning.