The Environmental Protection Agency wants a thorough review of the consequences of coal export through Northwest ports, saying the first project in the pipeline — at Oregon’s Port of Morrow — “has the potential to significantly impact human health and the environment.”
It’s not a full victory for environmentalists and tribes near the Columbia River. EPA stopped short of recommending that the Army Corps of Engineers conduct a wholesale analysis of all six potential projects to export Montana and Wyoming coal to Asia through Oregon and Washington.
But it gives environmental groups more ammunition in the high-profile dispute, which could well end up in court.
If you examine all the events that have taken place the past twenty years involving environmental issues, there is one clear group of people who have been the biggest winners. Lawyers!!!
We have a lawyer as president, and he has done a great job in making sure his profession profits during his administation.