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Planned West Coast Port Expansions Would Enable Asia To Import More US Coal

Coal train. Image credit: Wikipedia US coal production is at a tipping point, leaning toward more exports to Asia. It’s just as easy to load the train with the kind of coal used to make steel or activated carbon as with the sort used to generate electricity – and Chinese demand is on the increase for both. Counting on US coal port facility development, the USA is poised to satisfy that growing demand in parallel with an ant… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Planned West Coast Port Expansions Would Enable Asia To Import More US Coal

The Basics of Infrastructure

Photo Credit: vaxomatic / creative commons It’s in vogue these days, infrastructure that is. Everyone is talking about it. Pronounced in-fruh-struhk-cher , it’s phonetically brilliant. But do you know what it really means? With regard to sustainability, infrastructure is at the core of society’s attempt and struggle to live in harmony with nature. When you talk about energy, you are actually talking abo… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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