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<div><font face="Geneva"><b>Coal Glut, Environmental Pushback Derail
West Coast Port Plans</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva">Once promising, exports to Asia have been
undermined by oversupply, demise of port projects</font></div>
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>http://www.wsj.com/articles/coal-glut-environmental-pushback-derail-<span
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Western coal producers once saw
exports to Asia as their future. For many, that dream is
fading.</font></div>
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A global glut has flooded overseas markets that were once expected to
buy coal produced along a belt stretching from Utah to Montana that
includes the Powder River Basin. The industry is also losing
long-sought shipping outlets on the West Coast, where local
communities have blocked construction of coal terminals amid concerns
about climate change and pollution.</font></div>
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Out of seven West Coast export terminals proposed in the past five
years-which combined could have handled over 125 million tons of
coal annually-not one has opened.</font></div>
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The coal companies' defeats-under pressure from environmental
groups-show the limits of miners' sway over authorities as cheaper
natural gas and tighter emissions standards have slashed demand for
the fuel. With three of the four largest U.S. producers in bankruptcy
and others hampered by debt, the retrenchment has been
swift.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">"It looks discouraging," said
Oystein Mathisen, president of Frontier International Shipping Corp.,
a ship brokerage</font></div>
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<div>Full article here:</div>
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></span>west-coast-port-plans-1470070765</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Water vapor
is also the most abundant greenhouse gas. As the equilibrium vapor
pressure of water vapor increases rapidly with temperature, warming
(or cooling) induced by a climate forcing will be amplified through
water vapor feedback [e.g., Soden et al., 2002]. The strength of this
feedback is a key determinant of the planet's equilibrium climate
sensitivity."<br>
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Mark C. Serreze, Andrew P. Barrett, and Julienne Stroeve. Recent
changes in tropospheric water vapor over the Arctic as assessed from
radiosondes and atmospheric reanalyses.</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>JOURNAL OF
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH</i>, VOL. 117, 2012</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1"
color="#2E0068">doi:10.1029/2011JD017421</font><font face="Verdana"
size="-1" color="#000000">, 2012<br>
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