Posted on 04/29/2017 6:02:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A coal-export terminal proposed in Washington state would increase cancer risks for some residents, make rail accidents more likely and add millions of metric tons of climate-changing greenhouse gas globally every year, according to an environmental study released Friday.
Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview wants to build the facility along the Columbia River near the city of Longview to handle up to 44 million tons of coal a year. Coal would arrive by train from Montana, Wyoming and other states to be stored and loaded on ships heading to energy-hungry markets in Asia.
The yearslong fight over the deep-water port comes as President Donald Trump has vowed to revive the struggling coal industry and lifted restrictions on mining coal and drilling for oil and natural gas.
Environmentalists, tribes and others have fiercely opposed the project, which could increase U.S. exports of coal by 40 percent, because of concerns about global warming, coal dust pollution and potential damage to fisheries on the river.
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In two days it will be May 1st. It is snowing in Denver right now. I guess this is global warming in Denver today?
Unless it's the fuel consumed in the manufacture and transportation of solar panels and windmills...:^)
Shouldn’t we be Encouraging Global Warming wherever possible in an effort to stave off the Next Ice Age, which is Guaranteed and recurring all throughout the planets history?
or would geological history be Anti Science?
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