{"id":355782,"date":"2026-03-20T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355782\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:13:07","slug":"australias-new-south-wales-state-bans-future-coal-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355782\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s New South Wales State Bans Future Coal Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New South Wales, Australia\u2019s second-biggest coal-producing state, will ban new mine applications for the fossil fuel and impose rules to reduce methane emissions from existing projects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The state government will not approve so-called \u2018greenfield\u2019 coal mines, which are developed from scratch, in a move designed to meet its net zero target, it said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/ministerial-releases\/nsws-coal-industry-2026-50-supports-mining-workers-and-regional-communities\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/ministerial-releases\/nsws-coal-industry-2026-50-supports-mining-workers-and-regional-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">statement <\/a>on Thursday. The ban will not affect existing coal mines or expansions of those projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New South Wales, Australia\u2019s second-biggest coal-producing state, will ban new mine applications for the fossil fuel and impose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[986,114,246,18932,18933,161532,1523,18447,61,15706,60,582,150,82,2073,34719],"class_list":["post-355782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-china","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-generic-1st-xw-future","tag-glencore-plc","tag-government","tag-green","tag-ie","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-jobs","tag-science","tag-taiwan","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}