Air-Quality Monitoring Recommended for State’s Mines

Air-Quality Monitoring Recommended for State’s Mines
A general view of smoke rising from the the steelworks in Wollongong, Australia, on Feb. 1, 2021. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images
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The public should have access to air-quality data from all New South Wales (NSW) mine sites amid concerns about the facilities’ impacts on health and the environment, an inquiry has found.

The recommendation was one of a series from a state upper-house inquiry into the impacts of heavy-metal mining.