Coal Exports from Washington: NEPA/SEPA Scoping Begins for the Millennium...
On Tuesday, the Washington Department of Ecology announced an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to jointly oversee the preparation of an environmental impact statement (“EIS”) for...
View ArticleCoal Train Opposition in Seattle: Killing the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg?
We’re a week away from a public meeting for the scoping process of the Gateway Pacific Terminal EIS, one of the proposed coal export terminals undergoing NEPA/SEPA review right now in Washington. As...
View ArticleCoal Fight Update: Washington State’s Unprecedented Expansion of the Scope of...
The plot thickens in the coal terminal fight. In my last update on this issue, I covered the Corps’ decision to not consider issues such as rail traffic, coal mining, and shipping outside of U.S....
View ArticleThe Coal Export Fight: Negative Implications for Future Dam Removal?
This weekend, Lynda Mapes at the Seattle Times wrote an interesting article on the drop of barge traffic along the Lower Snake River, and how a shift from barge to rail as the means of shipping wheat...
View ArticleWhy Don’t the New SEPA Rules the Department of Ecology Recently Issued for...
The 2012 Legislature directed the Department of Ecology (DOE) to update the SEPA rules, to increase the exemptions from SEPA analysis, and to modernize the exemptions, recognizing the extensive changes...
View ArticleKeystone XL Pipeline EIS: Implications for the Pacific Northwest
My partner Diane Meyers posted recently on the approval of the Keystone XL EIS, and that led me to thinking about the implications of this document with respect to the Pacific Northwest. The Keystone...
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