And Corporate Governance never accepts NO as an answer. Somehow the corporations are always a victim to THE PEOPLE and not the other way around.

September 26, 2017
By Valerie Volcovici

Washington - Washington state (click here) on Tuesday rejected a key permit needed for a proposed terminal to export coal to Asia, another blow to companies eager to sell Wyoming and Montana coal to Asian markets and to the Trump administration’s policy of global energy dominance.

Washington’s Department of Ecology rejected a water quality permit for the Millennium Coal Terminal, one of several permits sought by the company to build what would be the largest coal export terminal in the United States.

The state agency rejected the permit on grounds it caused environmental harm in nine key areas, from air quality to vessel traffic.

“There are simply too many unavoidable and negative environmental impacts for the project to move forward,” said Washington state Ecology Director Maia Bellon.

Millennium said it would appeal the decision, and accused the state agency of being biased against the project.

“Ecology appears to have intentionally disregarded decades of law defining the Clean Water Act to reject the water quality certification requested for Millennium’s project,” company president William Chapman said in a statement.

The terminal would export up to 44 million tonnes of coal mined in Wyoming and Montana’s Powder River Basin each year from companies such as Cloud Peak Energy and the coal-producing Crow tribe of southeastern Montana....

The people have rights to clear air, clean water and the prevention and reduction of greenhouse gases. If the coal from the USA is producing deadly greenhouse gas emissions in other parts of the world, it still impacts the people in the USA because it is a global emergency.

Wall Street wants to continue to operate as if there is nothing wrong. As if the climate crisis is a political football. It isn't. It is a life and death global emergency and it is killing Americans.

August 20, 2019
By David Steves

A coal company (click here) has been dealt another legal blow in its attempt to build an export terminal on the lower Columbia River.

The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that was being challenged by Millennium Bulk Terminals and Northwest Alloys Inc.

During the past decade as many as six projects have been proposed to transport coal by rail from Wyoming to ports in the Pacific Northwest. From there, the fossil fuel would be shipped to Asia. All but one — the Millennium Bulk project in Longview, Washington — has folded....