(Bloomberg) -A critical path for American coal exports to Asia dried up after the other port in the US city has passed a law to get fuel to leave from its shores. Lawmakers in Richmond, California, late Tuesday approved a ban to be imposed on coal, a terminal that handles about a quarter of exports from the US west coast targeting. Richmond connect more cities on the West Coast that fossil fuels banned from their shipping ports, choking key locations for one of the few coal markets around the world were still growing. As utilities to burn less coal in the United States, environmentalists and lawmakers see export regulations as a way to reduce both local pollution limit globally by greenhouse gas barrier and coal dust. “I have great ambitions that only Richmond,” said Mayor Tom Butt in an interview. “I want to get rid of all the coal world.” Pictures Photo copyright by David Paul Morris Bloomberg / Getty
California vote crucial US port coal exports to quit
