<div class='node-body'><p>Two major anti-coal actions this week highlighted the blight of the coal industry on Canada, the US, China and the world.</p>
<p>In Portland, Oregon activists held a rally against coal companies invading the Pacific Northwest with six separate coal export terminals that would send large amounts of US coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana to Asia. The plans will make Oregon and Washington the largest coal traffickers in North America, sending a constant flow of dirty coal trains through towns and communities across the northwest.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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