about Coal in the Northwest

Today McClatchy, the company that owns the Tacoma and Tri-Cities, Washington newspapers, as well as the Modesto and Sacramento Bee, published an article about coal in the Northwest.  

Here is a link: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/12/02/2190792/officials-in-tri-cities-unlike.html

Wow, either the newspaper or the local officials have missed the mark.  Never mind how the trains could clog traffic - what about the increased diesel emissions from the trains, and the toxic coal dust that poisons all along railroad tracks?  

Tribes oppose coal trains.  The opposition even merited a mention by the venerable New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/us/tribes-add-powerful-voice-against-northwest-coal-plan.html?pagewanted=all

I like the picture the Times used:


Peace and justice, y'all

Molly