Coal Free Future for Washington
- Statement of LeeAnne Beres, Executive Director of Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light, on the challenge to the Longview Coal Export Terminal Permit
- Coal Export Terminal On Lower Columbia Draws Fire
- Earth Ministry's Jessie Dye was quoted in a recent NPR story about Ambre Energy North America's plan to use Longview, WA as a port terminal to export coal.
- Growing Community of Voices Demand A Better Future Than Dirty Coal Export
- Senate Stalls on Climate and Clean Energy Solutions
- Earth Ministry/WAIPL Executive Director LeeAnne Beres joined Congressman Jay Inslee and members of the business and veteran communities in a press conference speaking to the continued need for comprehensive national climate legislation this year. LeeAnne’s full statement follows the press release below.
- Wash., TransAlta reach deal on mercury, haze
- The Washington Department of Ecology has reached a deal to reduce mercury and smog-causing pollution at a major coal-fired power plant though environmentalists, including Earth Ministry's LeeAnne Beres, say it doesn't go far enough.
- Greens, faith groups protest polluter tax break
- A $5 million-a-year tax exemption for TransAlta, the Canadian corporation that owns the Centralia coal plant, remains in the state budget. As LeeAnne Beres, executive director of Earth Ministry/ Washington Interfaith Power & Light, comments, "Coal is a dirty and dangerous power source and a major contributor to climate change, one of the most important moral issues of our time."
