Experts and field studies show coal pollution from rail transport would be significantly higher than study predicts.
"The question has always been not if but when. We've had a taste of the when and we're gonna taste it again and again and again unless we do."
The catastrophe in the Columbia Gorge is a stark new reminder that oil-by-rail is unsafe.
In the past three years, a broad-based coalition of oil terminal opponents has waged an unrelenting campaign to win the hearts and minds of the general public.
The bankrupt coal giant walks away from a $60 million investment in coal exports.
The backers of Millennium Bulk Terminals, a proposed coal-export terminal in Longview, WA, are scrambling to get on the last boat to Asia.
Hood River County voters have approved a ban on commercial water bottling, blocking a $50 million bottling plant Nestle wants to build in the Columbia
