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Under assault from Big Green, coal is fighting back

By Ron Arnold
Published August 26, 2014 11:11pm ET
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Under assault from Big Green, coal is fighting back
In this May 22, 2014, file photo, Wesley Simon-Parsons, civil and environmental supervisor at Dominion Terminal Associates, stands near piles of coal at the company's coal terminal in Newport News, Va. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) | Patrick Semansky

When Oregon regulators killed plans for Columbia River coal export docks Aug. 18, Big Green redirected its minions and money northward to the decisive battlefield: Cherry Point, Wash., and the proposed $600 million Pacific Gateway Terminal for shipping 48 million tons of Powder River Basin coal annually from Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota to Asia.

It will be a different fight.

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