Huge Rally, Big Success

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Hundreds Join Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Rally Against Exporting Coal Through Pacific Northwest to Asia Voices rise up to reject dirty coal View photos from the rally May 7th, 2012, Portland, OR– Flanked by hundreds of activists in Oregon’s largest demonstration opposing exporting coal, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave an impassioned call for a halt to the export of …

Wyoming coal to Asia draws hopes, opposition

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“Wyoming producers are increasingly hoping Asia’s booming demand for Powder River Basin coal will cover a slide in domestic need. But there’s a problem. The West Coast, home to few port facilities capable of shipping coal, is choking sales to Asia…. Opposition to the coal shipments is rising on a number of fronts, even as the ink dries on agreements …

The Dirty Dance: Export Plan Puts North Idaho in the Middle of a New Coal Rush

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While Highway 200 sees a steady stream of cars and trucks traveling to and from nearby Montana, it runs parallel with one of the Northwest’s busiest rail lines. And through a confluence of much larger global forces–including Warren Buffett, economic growth in Asia and coal mined in Montana and Wyoming–those vacation snapshots could come to include a whole lot more …

Coal on a Roll

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When Warren Buffett and his fellow Berkshire Hathaway director Bill Gates visited the Black Thunder coal mine last November, they did their best to keep a low profile. This is not an easy thing to do, however, when a fleet of nine private aircraft touches down at a small county airport like the one in Gillette, Wyoming, which bills itself, not …

When the locals don’t want your coal, sell it overseas

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The world’s largest surface coal mine complex is a landscape unto itself. Six 200-foot-high draglines tear open the earth and scoop the black coal into gigantic dump trucks that make school buses look like playthings. Two dozen loaded-down trains, each a mile long, slide out of the mine complex every day, headed for power plants hundreds and even thousands of …

Millennium Bulk Terminals has offered to delay coal exports

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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 …