Justices deny Wyoming, Montana coal suit against Washington

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that it won’t allow Wyoming and Montana to sue Washington state for denying a key permit to build a coal export dock that would have sent coal to Asia.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito voted in the minority in the ruling against letting the two states sue the third in a case that would have gone directly before the high court.

The two major coal mining states have sought to boost exports to prop up an industry in decline for a decade as U.S. utilities switch to gas-fired power and renewable energy.

The Washington state Department of Ecology in 2017 denied a permit for the export dock, saying the facility on the Columbia River would cause “irreparable and unavoidable” environmental harm.

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By MEAD GRUVER
37 minutes ago


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-montana-wyoming-washington-global-trade-173c144d577e8c7b9af078b37739220a

[Jim__]

1. Thomas and Alito voted to allow the suit. What a surprise!

[Mysterian]

14. Their guiding principles are to assist the wealthy,

not the law.

[CanonRay]

2. Sucks to be a landlocked asylum

[Hugin]

4. They could always buy it a row on a commercial flight.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Coal was delivered during the Berlin Airlift

You could be on to something

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/berlin-airlift/#:~:text=16%20April%201949%3A%20During%20the%20Berlin%20Airlift%2C%20airplanes,required%201%2C383%20flights.%20%C2%A9%202015%2C%20Bryan%20R.%20Swopes

[Ocelot II]

3. Alito and Thomas again. Those two are the worst.

For all the griping about Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett - as bad as they might be - those two guys are consistently and always terrible. The new three have at least occasionally written or signed on to opinions that weren't terrible.

[oldsoftie]

12. And boy does it piss off the trumpers.

They were assured that the Trump Three would be 100% reliable votes on THEIR side.
NO room for difference of opinion!

[roamer65]

5. Good job, Washington State!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. As a resident of Washington state I'm happy

[roamer65]

8. Get ready for a whole lot of whining and threats from those inland states.

This is the brand of states’ rights they DON’T like, the ones where the red states get told NO.



I am wondering if this battle will get nastier...

[NickB79]

9. On the same day the Northeast is being cooked by our carbon emissions

Seems fitting.

[roamer65]

11. Yeah.

Very, very true.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Try Oregon?

[Angleae]

13. They'll get the same result.

More likely they'll go east to the Mississippi and ship by barge south to the gulf.

[Left-face]

15. Gee..what an outrage

I thought that SCOTUS was supposed to be in donny's pocket. Well that's what he gets for having the name Donald. The duck had no pockets either.