Salt Lake Tribune: A thick blanket of smoke has obscured the proposition to loan $53 million in state money to a private company for access to an unbuilt port in Oakland -- coal smoke.
The project had shown up on the Utah Permanent Community Impact Board's agenda last April simply as "Infrastructure -- Throughput Capacity." And when Utah's four largest coal-producing counties pushing the loan made their pitch at that meeting, they didn't even use the word "coal."
Instead, the backers spent most of their time...