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Coal export proposals threaten the health, safety, and economic vitality of Cowlitz County. Attend a picnic to learn more and help our community power past coal. Saturday, July 20, 11am – 1pm Willow Grove Park (free event) Bring a picnic and learn how to stop coal export in Longview. RSVP today by filling in the information below and click “submit.” …
Hundreds of people turned out Tuesday in Portland and Hermiston, Ore., for simultaneously held hearings on a proposal to transport coal by train to the Columbia River so it can be shipped to Asia. Read the full story here.
Marathon public hearings for three air and water quality permits to allow coal export through Boardman started at 8 a.m. today in Portland and Hermiston and continue until 8 p.m. Although the crowd in the opening minutes of the hearings this morning was sparse, at least 520 people have signed up to speak at the hearings. Portland’s hearing is at …
COWLITZ COUNTY – In anticipation of the scoping period for an environmental impact statement (EIS) that three agencies plan to jointly prepare for a proposed coal export terminal near Longview, the agencies are announcing tentative dates for scoping meetings so people can plan for them. Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview LLC proposes to build and operate a terminal at the site of …
More than 800 people turned out for Spokane’s public hearing on coal export last December, some from as far away as Eastern Montana. The vast majority of them called on the government to study the full range of potential impacts of plans to make the Northwest a conveyor belt for 100 million tons of coal every year from mines in …
On a midweek afternoon, the piercing blasts of a locomotive whistle announce the approach of a freight train and the closure of Fourth Street, a key artery that runs through this city north of Seattle. Read the full story here.
(Reuters) – U.S. officials who administer a federal coal program have undervalued the fuel, costing taxpayers $62 million in some recent mining leases alone, said a government report released on Tuesday. Read the full story here.
A few months ago more than 124,000 comments by community members including doctors, teachers, business owners, fishers and tribal members flooded the Department of Ecology, Army Corps of Engineers and Whatcom County Planning Department with requests that these regulating agencies assess a broad range of probable impacts associated with the proposed Gateway Pacific coal terminal. Read the full story here.
MARYSVILLE — When it comes to traffic backups from more coal trains, Marysville is Snohomish County’s ground zero. Of 33 street crossings on BNSF Railway’s north-south line in the county, 16 — nearly half — are in Marysville. Many of them already are congested. Read the full story here.
DECKER, Mont. — At Spring Creek Mine, a broad black seam of coal, reaching depths of 80 feet, runs like a subterranean river through arid, sagebrush-covered hills. This is a world-class seam formed from the remnants of ferns, grasses and other plants that flourished here more than 50 million years ago, when this part of Montana was a humid marsh. Read …
