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Judge sides with Washington coal hub backers
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Judge sides with Washington coal hub backers

  • By GENE JOHNSON, The Associated Press
  • Updated

A Washington state judge on Friday handed a victory to the developers of a massive proposed coal-export terminal on the Columbia River, saying the state acted arbitrarily when it blocked a sublease sought for the project.

Feds allow logging after huge California wildfire
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Feds allow logging after huge California wildfire

  • SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press
  • Updated

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Forest Service officials say they tried to balance competing interests in a plan released Wednesday that allows loggers to remove trees killed in a massive central California wildfire last year, but environmentalists called it a travesty and threaten to sue.