Coal export: Ready, set, gone

Remember how good it feels to gather with thousands of friends and neighbors standing up for a cleaner and safer future? Get ready, because a comment period for the massive Millennium coal export terminal proposed in Longview, Washington, has arrived and the public hearings are just around the corner.

Submit your comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) today. We must stop Millennium from polluting the Columbia River with what could be the nation’s largest coal export terminal. The DEIS is an important tool for showing decision-makers that far and wide, people want a clean and healthy future – not coal.

We have three important public hearings to pack as we hit the road to end coal export.

• Longview: Tuesday, May 24th at the Cowlitz Expo Center 1:00-9:00PM Rally at 4:00PM
• Spokane: Thursday, May 26th at the Spokane Convention 1:00-9:00PM Rally at 4:00PM
• Pasco: Thursday, June 2nd at the Trac Center 1:00-9:00PM Rally at 4:00PM

Stay tuned for workshops on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement in your community plus transportation information for the public hearings and the rally times prior. Please wear red!

Here are two simple actions to make a difference today:

1. Submit your comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
2. Share this information with your family and friends to make sure they know about the comment period and public hearings.

Coal’s future is bleak – Millennium backer Arch Coal filed for bankruptcy in January and their dreams of mining in Montana’s Otter Creek are over. But Big Coal still wants to use the Columbia River as a dirty coal chute to Asia as their last hope to prop up an unhealthy industry. Fortunately, the movement to stop dirty coal from polluting our towns and rivers is bigger and stronger than ever. Now is our time to shine, and lock out dirty coal once and for all.