EDITORIAL: Coal-export promoters should pay to mitigate health and environmental impacts

Allison Roberts News

An ill-conceived plan to ship more than 100 million tons of cheap coal annually to Asia epitomizes what has gone seriously awry with the U.S. economy. Corporations have already off-shored millions of manufacturing jobs to China. Now we are being asked to export mountains of coal to fuel its factories and power plants, adding inexorably to Earth’s carbon-dioxide burden.

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