Full-Throttle Battle Underway to Stop Coal Chute to China

EcoWatch: The U.S. coal industry's wants to convert the western U.S. into a railroad and barge pipeline for coal mined in Montana and Wyoming and hauled along the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean for export to China and elsewhere. Photo by Paul K. Anderson 2012 – paulkanderson.com In the Pacific Northwest, activists and their allies are ramping up for a full-throttle battle over a proposal to haul coal across the west for export to China. Big Coal's latest master plan promises to generate a second epicenter...

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