Rejection of Coal Export Facility Is Good News–But It Gets Even Better

Have you ever wondered why the far right wing tends to support fossil fuels and fights against renewable energy? They don’t have children—or bronchial tubes? They hate trees, clean air, and oceans that support life?

Some speculate that the phenomenon is this: if liberals like something, they feel they’re somehow forced to hate it. I honestly don’t know. It’s a mystery, to be sure, one that may never unravel.

Yet I’m wondering if the far right isn’t starting to come around on this, rendering the entire discussion moot. Here’s news that dealt a crushing blow to Big Coal: the rejection of a permit for a coal export facility in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Yes, it’s good news for those of us with lungs—and, what’s even better, the rejection was supported by a huge variety of people with an enormous range of political views.

Maybe we’re getting somewhere.