ClimateWire: This 900-acre industrial park features a horseshoe-shaped dock of timber and steel that juts out into the Columbia River, an hour's drive north of Portland. During World War II it shipped bullets and bombs across the Pacific. Now it's providing ammunition for a new battle: whether to export substantial amounts of coal from the western United States to Asia. "The channel runs deep here. It's self-scouring, so you don't have to dredge it," explained Craig Allison, operations manager for the port,...
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