Enviros Sue Ex-Im Bank Over Loan Guarantee To Domestic Coal Broker

"Above the harbor in Baltimore’s industrial Curtis Hill district is a one-acre urban farm. Jason Reed, a community organizer who works there, described the view. 'I can look out over the harbor, and you can see the piles and piles of coal,' he said."



"That coal is the subject of a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of environmental groups against the Export-Import Bank of the United States. The groups are challenging the federal agency’s financing of fossil fuel exports from ports in Baltimore and Hampton Roads."

Max Ehrenfreund reports for the Washington Post July 31, 2013.
 

Source: Wash Post, 08/01/2013