EcoWatch: As the environmental impact statement (EIS) scoping period for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point, Washington, draws to a close on Jan. 21, and public comments on the Coyote Island Terminal in Boardman, Oregon, are long past due, federal, state and county decision makers never provided public hearings in Idaho and Montana or a mine-to-port regional programmatic environmental analysis.
Nonetheless, residents of the comparatively rural inland Northwest, especially near Powder...