This is the best summary I could come up with:

Coalmine expansions and developments approved in Australia so far this year are expected to add nearly 150m tonnes of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere over their lifetimes – equivalent to nearly a third of the country’s annual climate pollution.

The Climate Council’s chief executive, Amanda McKenzie, said the mine expansion approval showed Australia’s environment laws were “absolutely broken”.

The Australia Institute’s research director, Rod Campbell, said greener approaches to making steel were developing and several of Queensland’s metallurgical existing coalmines had huge available reserves that were expected to last for decades, suggesting new mines were not needed.

Campbell said Plibersek and the department had shown they “know how to stop fossil fuel projects when it suits them” by letting the approval for two “zombie” coalmines – the China Stone and Range mines, both of which had already stalled – lapse.

Plibersek said she was the first Australian environment minister to stop a coalmine – Clive Palmer’s proposed Central Queensland development – and cancelled the approvals for the China Stone and Range mine.

The Greens leader Adam Bandt said: “Every new coal and gas project Tanya Plibersek approves makes the climate crisis worse and puts our country at risk.”

The original article contains 704 words, the summary contains 198 words. Saved 72%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!