The group is made of up 22 members including
coal terminal developers, railroads, business and union groups as well as the three largest mining companies in the Powder River Basin: Peabody Energy, Arch Coal and Cloud Peak Energy.
A federal judge in California on Tuesday struck down the city of Oakland's ban on
coal shipments at a proposed cargo
terminal, siding with a
developer who wants to use the site to transport Utah
coal to Asia.