The Surface Transportation Board has formally rejected the coal train project. This victory belongs to every person who signed to protect our rivers and trails. Keep watching the rail corridor to ensure no other bad actors try to revive this plan.
October 10, 2021
Final supporters
A secret, clandestine operation – hiding behind an anonymous LLC out of Wyoming – wants to ship millions and millions of tons of coal from Montana, Utah and Wyoming to the North Coast utilizing the now defunct North Coast rail route. It would then be loaded onto ships, sold overseas and burned.
You read this right. An anonymous group of Big Coal supporters wants to ship trainloads of this stuff, one of the earth’s worst carcinogens and toxic pollutants, through our home towns, along our rivers and through our farmlands in Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties.
To add insult to injury: They want to stop the Great Redwood Trail that would traverse this same old rail route.
We’ve made amazing progress on the trail over the past several years. The trail would meander through ancient redwood forests, oak studded golden hills and along our mighty rivers which are the drinking water sources for nearly one million residents.
We can’t stand for this. We must say HELL NO to Coal!
We rallied against Big Oil to protect our coast from offshore drilling – and won. We rallied against Big Coal to stop new coal-fired power plants here in California – and won. Now is the time to put the nail in the coffin of coal once and for all.
Please sign our petition today. We will forward this petition to the Surface Transportation Board, the federal agency that will approve or stop the toxic coal train in its tracks.
Updates
Reached 5,000 supporters
September 8, 2021
September 4, 2021
We hit our first 1,000 signatures today. This momentum proves the public refuses to let this coal line threaten our rivers. Call your local representative right now to demand they block this project.
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 3, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
September 3, 2021
September 2, 2021
We are approaching one thousand signatures and we need to hit that goal before we submit this to the Surface Transportation Board. Text three neighbors right now and ask them to sign. This momentum is how we stop these coal trains for good.
2,332 Comments
This is not an environmentally feasible option, the current railroad track system is beyond repair and could never be rebuilt at its current location while meeting current environmental regulations. Bret Rinehart, PE Rinehart Engineering
I do locum tenens nationwide and medical work in these Redwood environs. I cannot let you do this to Northern California, delivering coal by train for shipment overseas. Not wise or beneficial - in fact dangerous - to local residents enroute.
This is a bad idea. Coal is going out! Humboldt County just got money for a feasibility study on an off-shore wind farm. And it's feasible. Keep the carbon in the ground! don't truck it through some of the last remaining forest wilderness in America.
Shady. No names, trying to shove this ill conceived plan down our throats. Who is going to pay for the upgrades to rail and the harbor in Eureka? Isn’t China in the Paris accord, having agreed to decrease its coal use? This is a shady, shady scam.
This plan is an environmental disaster, the price of hauling dirty coal dust along our struggling rivers is too high. Also the old tracks are not used for a reason. Landslides are common as are fires caused by the trains. This plan is not ok.
Stop toxic sources of energy!!! And leave the Great Redwood Trail alone!
Please let us cease coal at once and its perpetually destructive environmental and health consequences! We need to invest more in community renewable energy and continue investing in affordable solar panels with incentives or grants, please!
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The Surface Transportation Board has formally rejected the coal train project. This victory belongs to every person who signed to protect our rivers and trails. Keep watching the rail corridor to ensure no other bad actors try to revive this plan.
October 10, 2021
Final supporters
A secret, clandestine operation – hiding behind an anonymous LLC out of Wyoming – wants to ship millions and millions of tons of coal from Montana, Utah and Wyoming to the North Coast utilizing the now defunct North Coast rail route. It would then be loaded onto ships, sold overseas and burned.
You read this right. An anonymous group of Big Coal supporters wants to ship trainloads of this stuff, one of the earth’s worst carcinogens and toxic pollutants, through our home towns, along our rivers and through our farmlands in Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Trinity and Humboldt counties.
To add insult to injury: They want to stop the Great Redwood Trail that would traverse this same old rail route.
We’ve made amazing progress on the trail over the past several years. The trail would meander through ancient redwood forests, oak studded golden hills and along our mighty rivers which are the drinking water sources for nearly one million residents.
We can’t stand for this. We must say HELL NO to Coal!
We rallied against Big Oil to protect our coast from offshore drilling – and won. We rallied against Big Coal to stop new coal-fired power plants here in California – and won. Now is the time to put the nail in the coffin of coal once and for all.
Please sign our petition today. We will forward this petition to the Surface Transportation Board, the federal agency that will approve or stop the toxic coal train in its tracks.
Updates
Reached 5,000 supporters
September 8, 2021
September 4, 2021
We hit our first 1,000 signatures today. This momentum proves the public refuses to let this coal line threaten our rivers. Call your local representative right now to demand they block this project.
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 3, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
September 3, 2021
September 2, 2021
We are approaching one thousand signatures and we need to hit that goal before we submit this to the Surface Transportation Board. Text three neighbors right now and ask them to sign. This momentum is how we stop these coal trains for good.
2,332 Comments
Great Redwood Trail Please and BK 101, the first bicycle highway in the country. For Gods sake this county has overwhelmin support for CLEAN energy, Community Choice Aggregation, Offshore wind and even a Photovoltaic Micro grid at our airport. NO TO COAL!
This is not an environmentally feasible option, the current railroad track system is beyond repair and could never be rebuilt at its current location while meeting current environmental regulations. Bret Rinehart, PE Rinehart Engineering
I do locum tenens nationwide and medical work in these Redwood environs. I cannot let you do this to Northern California, delivering coal by train for shipment overseas. Not wise or beneficial - in fact dangerous - to local residents enroute.
This is a bad idea. Coal is going out! Humboldt County just got money for a feasibility study on an off-shore wind farm. And it's feasible. Keep the carbon in the ground! don't truck it through some of the last remaining forest wilderness in America.
Shady. No names, trying to shove this ill conceived plan down our throats. Who is going to pay for the upgrades to rail and the harbor in Eureka? Isn’t China in the Paris accord, having agreed to decrease its coal use? This is a shady, shady scam.
This plan is an environmental disaster, the price of hauling dirty coal dust along our struggling rivers is too high. Also the old tracks are not used for a reason. Landslides are common as are fires caused by the trains. This plan is not ok.
Stop toxic sources of energy!!! And leave the Great Redwood Trail alone!
Please let us cease coal at once and its perpetually destructive environmental and health consequences! We need to invest more in community renewable energy and continue investing in affordable solar panels with incentives or grants, please!
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Great Redwood Trail Please and BK 101, the first bicycle highway in the country. For Gods sake this county has overwhelmin support for CLEAN energy, Community Choice Aggregation, Offshore wind and even a Photovoltaic Micro grid at our airport. NO TO COAL!