The governors of Oregon and Washington are calling on the White House to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gasses from coal exports.
The governors of Oregon and Washington are calling on the White House to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gasses from coal exports.
In a joint letter sent Monday to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber called on the federal government to examine the consequences on global air quality if five coal export terminals proposed in Washington and Oregon ship up to 140 million tons of coal a year from Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River basin to hungry markets in Asia.
Given that coal exports from the Northwest could result in 240 million tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions, the Democratic governors wrote, “it is hard to conceive that the federal government would ignore the inevitable consequences of coal leasing and coal export.”
Read more at The Huffington Post.
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