Millennium Bulk Terminals has offered to delay coal exports

Allison Roberts News

Millennium Bulk Terminals has offered to delay coal exports for at least a year and conduct a full environmental review to settle an appeal of its permit to build a coal terminal west of Longview, the company announced Monday.

Plans for a major West Coast coal export facility– the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia–took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the facility near Longview, Wash.

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