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Fighting Coal Exports in Washington
2:23 pm in Business & Politics, clean coal, coal, News by TreeHugger
Trainloads of coal from Powder River Basin travel to Washington's coast for export. Photo by Paul K. Anderson.
What would it be like if an endless train carrying countless tons of coal destined for foreign power plants barreled its way through your neighborhood? Besides the excessive noise, the toxic dust from the boxcars would leave you and everyone around you coughing and wheezing.
No wonder why hundreds of people showed up earlier this month to the "Coal Hard Truth" forum in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Co-organized by the Read the full story on TreeHugger
