Clean-energy backers rallied outside the Salt Lake City office of an Australian company seeking permits to build a coal-exporting terminal in Longview, Wash.

The rally against coal, outside of Ambre Energy’s North American Headquarters in [Salt Lake City], attracted about 40 protesters holding signs and chanting about coal’s environmental and health effects.

Scott Parkin, a San Francisco-based coordinator for the Rainforest Action Network, said the United States should not ship coal to China and other nations with lesser health and emissions standards.


From the Salt Lake Tribune