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The Seattle City Council is considering a resolution Tuesday to oppose the development of coal-export terminals in Washington state over concerns about increased train traffic and potential harm to health and the environment.

In 1851, the United States called a treaty council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming which was attended by 8,000 - 12,000 Indians from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Shoshone, Crow, Assiniboine, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Mandan, and Hidatsa tribes.

In a courageous move that puts him at odds with the president from his own party, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is challenging the Obama Administration's policy of supporting a massive increase of exports of American coal, regardless of drastic consequences an increase of coal exports of this magnitude would have for Climate Change.