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1 day agoThe US Needs India to Buy Coal. Who Pays the Cost?
Expanding U.S. coal exports to India increases fossil fuel dependency and imposes environmental and health burdens on local communities in both countries.
Now, the city's top staffer said Tagami's firm, Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal LLC, will be "treated like any other developer that comes into the city." "At this point, it's just another development project," City Administrator Jestin Johnson said in an interview. "The city has exercised all its legal options." The word "coal," he added, did not even come up during a recent meeting between the administrator and Tagami.
The Australian musicians Oli and Louis Leimbach, who had earlier performed at the protest as part of the band Lime Cordiale, were joined by Dr Elen O'Donnell, a doctor and Greenpeace activist, who boarded the vessel, Greenpeace said. The activists unfurled a banner that stated Phase out coal and gas and painted the words Timeline now! on the ship. We are taking action today, alongside thousands of people who have joined Rising Tide's blockade, to show Australia's leaders that if the government won't act, the people will, O'Donnell said.