Company to resubmit permit for coal-shipping port
TriCity Herald
March 15, 2011
The Sierra Club, Columbia Riverkeeper and Climate Solutions, represented by the public interest law firm Earthjustice, had appealed the permit to a state hearings board. The groups raised concerns about potential health problems from coal dust, traffic congestion from coal trains and greenhouse gas emissions from burning coal.
LONGVIEW, Wash. A company that wants to build a coal-shipping port on the Columbia River plans to withdraw a controversial permit currently under appeal, three weeks before the case was set to go to trial.
