Her advocacy background includes working for Greenpeace
fighting coal export proposals in the western U.S, as a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, and as a litigation fellow at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (now EarthRise Law Center).
Washington, Oregon and BC activists who are
fighting coal export from our shores will be grateful for this information.
It's also a remarkable win for local environmentalists and tribes, including the Swinomish Tribe, Yakama Nation, and Lummi Nation, who have been
fighting coal exports.
Not exact matches
COAL: Six Western states join a legal fight against Washington state for rejecting permits for a massive terminal that would have exported coal to Asian mark
COAL: Six Western states join a legal
fight against Washington state for rejecting permits for a massive terminal that would have
exported coal to Asian mark
coal to Asian markets.
As I've argued several times, the battle over
coal -
export terminals in the Pacific Northwest is the key U.S. climate
fight of the next few years.
You can get inspiration from today's New York Times article about I - 732 (and the
fight over
coal export terminals).
Our strategy to
fight export demand or any demand for that matter is to win at the source and to keep the
coal in the ground.
Thank goodness environmental activists like Fred Felleman are
fighting back, opposing plans for massive
coal export facilities, seeking to block new LNG
export terminals, and attempting to scuttle Keystone XL and TransMountain tar sands oil pipeline expansions.
Thus the
coal export fight.
As with
fights under way over the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and plans to build
coal export terminals on U.S. coastlines, the new fossil fuel abundance is touching off a backlash among those alarmed by the consequences for climate change.