Today's edition is a double-feature. Pow!

First, Al Jazeera takes a look at the controversial plan to ship coal to China from Wyoming and Montana for coal-fired electrical plants by train. Even though this report focuses more on the port of Bellingham, 40 to 50 coal trains will go through Spokane each day.
 

 

After the jump is the second feature. It's long but totally worth it. This amazing footage shows a 150 car coal train along the Thompson River in British Columbia. Please note the visible dust flurries above the open coal cars - especially at the 2:00 mark. These cars can lose three percent of their load in transit so that's about 1.6 million tons of coal dust across Washington each year.

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