coal ports

Wyoming has filed a Petition to Participate as a Party with the Oregon Office of Administrative Hearings for the Coyote Island Terminal coal port contested case.

In written testimony submitted Tuesday to the House Committee on energy and commerce, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers announced the agency will not undertake a full Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for permit applications for coal ports in Washington and Oregon. The Wyoming Mining Association is holding their annual convention in Sheridan this week. Doug Randall has the details. Read Mo

Anti-coal groups, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various elected officials had requested that the entire lifecycle of coal – from extraction, to transport, to eventual usage in Asia – be considered in the EIS covering a single port project.