A court in Poland has upheld a lawsuit by environmentalists against the Turów open-cast coal mine. A regional administrative court in Warsaw on Wednesday annulled a positive environmental impact assessment issued in the autumn of 2022. This was the basis for Poland’s extending the concession for the operation of the mine until 2044. However, the judges made it clear in Wednesday’s ruling that their decision does not mean mining at the Turów facility must stop. The verdict is not yet legally binding. Several environmental associations and the city of Zittau in Saxony had filed a suit. In its ru…