SEATTLE — Railroad managers who may have wanted to serve a new, large West Coast coal export terminal have been dealt a blow as the Washington State Department of Ecology vetoed a key permit to the project's lead company. Millennium Bulk Termi...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/10/03-wash-coal-terminal
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Darn bunch of tree huggers killed a great economic opportunity for the USA. With the required emmissions standards this is just a lot hooey.
Look for this one to end up in court under the Commerce Clause again. Washington IIRC does NOT have to power do regulate their own emission requirements only CA was given that power in the Clean Air Act. So in court the State will lose and be forced to allow this to open.
Look for the Roberts Bank Superport in Vancouver to expand again after the container terminal expansion is complete and those 16 coal trains will just highball on through Longview and Tacoma and Seattle.
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