A new advocacy group has been formed that joins people across NSW who are facing "serious adverse social impacts" from coal mining and coal seam gas projects.
The network of groups - named Connected Communities for Social Impact Justice - includes Groundswell Gloucester, Doctors for the Environment, People for the Plains and Artesian Bore Water Users Association.
"The exacerbation of the climate emergency we are facing directly correlates with the continuation of fossil-fuel mining and the destruction of our communities," network spokesperson Julie Lyford said.
The network aims to highlight to politicians and bureaucrats the "disastrous effects of continued extraction within fragile and food-producing landscapes, threatening aquifers, water sources and the Great Artesian Basin".
"Coupled with the terrible drought still plaguing many communities out west, climate-fuelled bushfires and ecological collapse, the women of the bush are fighting back," she said.
Ms Lyford said the network was "sick of the serious social impacts on our communities and environments being ignored by decision makers".
Activists were emboldened by the Land and Environment Court's decision in February last year to reject the Rocky Hill coal mine project near Gloucester because of social impacts and greenhouse gas emissions.
The network is urging the NSW government to strengthen the framework around social impact and climate change legislation.
