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Coal Free Bellingham

Coal Free Bellingham    NO COAL! is a group of concerned citizens who believe that our rights-based ordinance, championed by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), represents our community’s best chance to stop coal trafficking. NO COAL! is anchored to the premise that we want to STOP coal trafficking and its harmful impacts on our community and the environment – not regulate it. We’re not willing to rely upon the regulatory approach to permitting which is designed to mitigate – not prevent harm. We have little hope that the regulations in place to mitigate potential environmental and economic harms to our community will stand up to the billions of dollars of corporate investment in profiting from the extraction and exportation of coal.