State of Washington Kills Final West Coast Coal Export Project

Today,  the Washington State Department of Ecology denied a permit for construction of the giant Millenium Bulk coal project that would have shipped 44 million tons of  coal from Wyoming and other Western States to markets in Asia.  This marks the 7th straight defeat for efforts to ship coal through West Coast ports in efforts to revive the dying U.S. coal industry. As in Oakland's rejection of the coal export facility proposed for the former Oakland Army Base, community mobilization and exposure of the real hazards and costs of expanding coal transport and consumption played an important role in the defeat of all six proposals to build coal ...