Facing down a 15,000-ton train engine full of coal
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By
Noble Smith
The Seattle Times
June 12, 2011
The good citizens of Bellingham pride themselves on their parks and social consciousness. It's a peaceful, gorgeous place. The perfect place for North America's biggest open-air coal dump, right?
Coal train
The Chinese need coal. They consume more than 3.2 billion metric tons every year to run the factories that make all of the junk we buy. The only way for American coal companies to get our cheap federally subsidized coal to China is to ship it across the Pacific Ocean.
