Arch Coal

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<td style=" box-sizing: content-box; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.1em 1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/org/29292/Coalpac_a_Political_Action_Committee_of_the_National_Mining_Association" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Coalpac a Political Action Committee of the National Mining Association</a></td>

<td style=" box-sizing: content-box; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.1em 1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/3815/Wes_M_Taylor" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Wes M Taylor</a>, <a title="Chairman and CEO, Arch Coal, Inc." href="https://littlesis.org/person/6931/Steven_F_Leer" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Steven F Leer</a>, <a title="President & CEO, Arch Coal, Inc." href="https://littlesis.org/person/10532/John_W_Eaves" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">John W Eaves</a>, <a title="Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10533/Paul_A_Lang" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Paul A Lang</a>, <a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10534/Robert_G_Jones" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Robert G Jones</a>, <a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10535/Robert_J_Messey" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Robert J Messey</a>, <a title="SVP and CFO, Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/64408/John_T_Drexler" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">John T Drexler</a></td>

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<td style=" box-sizing: content-box; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.1em 1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/org/31747/Arch_Coal_Inc.Political_Action_Committee%28Archpac%29" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Arch Coal Inc. Political Action Committee (Archpac)</a></td>

<td style=" box-sizing: content-box; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.1em 1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><a title="Chairman and CEO, Arch Coal, Inc." href="https://littlesis.org/person/6931/Steven_F_Leer" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Steven F Leer</a>, <a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10526/Theodore_D_Sands" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Theodore D Sands</a>, <a title="President & CEO, Arch Coal, Inc." href="https://littlesis.org/person/10532/John_W_Eaves" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">John W Eaves</a>, <a title="Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10533/Paul_A_Lang" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Paul A Lang</a>, <a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10534/Robert_G_Jones" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Robert G Jones</a>, <a title="view profile" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10535/Robert_J_Messey" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Robert J Messey</a>, <a title="SVP and CFO, Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/64408/John_T_Drexler" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">John T Drexler</a>, <a title="Former Wyoming EQC member" href="https://littlesis.org/person/103872/Wendy_Hutchinson" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Wendy Hutchinson</a></td>

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<td style=" box-sizing: content-box; vertical-align: top; padding: 0.1em 1em 0.6em 0.5em;"><a title="Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/10533/Paul_A_Lang" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Paul A Lang</a>, <a title="Governor of Wyoming" href="https://littlesis.org/person/34491/Dave_Freudenthal" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Dave Freudenthal</a>, <a title="SVP and CFO, Arch Coal" href="https://littlesis.org/person/64408/John_T_Drexler" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">John T Drexler</a></td>

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<div class="related_entity_entity" style=" box-sizing: content-box; height: 20px; overflow: hidden;"><a title="President & CEO, Arch Coal, Inc." href="https://littlesis.org/person/10532/John_W_Eaves" style=" box-sizing: content-box; background: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2em;">John W Eaves</a>   President & CEO, Arch Coal, Inc.</div>

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The Union of Concerned Scientists recently compiled a <a data-beacon="//www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-accountability-scorecard-ranking-major-fossil-fuel-companies#.V_faxPkrI5c" href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/fight-misinformation/climate-accountability-scorecard-ranking-major-fossil-fuel-companies#.V_faxPkrI5c" target="_hplink" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(241, 96, 44); outline: none;">scorecard</a> to help answer these questions. In its new analysis, UCS rated the business practices of the top eight U.S. investor-owned fossil fuel companies on Heede’s list that are U.S.-based or have a North American affiliate. In order of emissions magnitude, they are:

<li>Chevron</li>

<li>ExxonMobil</li>

<li>Royal Dutch Shell</li>

<li>ConocoPhillips</li>

<li>Peabody Energy</li>

<li>Consol Energy</li>

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<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2016/03/11/arch-coal-made-10000-gift-to-energy-environment-legal/">http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2016/03/11/arch-coal-made-10000-gift-to-energy-environment-legal/</a>

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/20/1528950/-As-the-coal-industry-collapses-and-workers-suffer-top-executives-rake-in-more-cash-than-ever

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advocacy group Public Citizen released a report Tuesday showing how top executives for three giant coal companies got large compensation boosts even as they laid off workers and cut their benefits. The three companies—Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, and Alpha Natural Resources—are all continuing their operations under Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. Over the past few years, they went deeply into debt expanding via mergers and other purchases even as coal prices were falling and their bottom lines were going from black to red.

Their choices were not criminal. But they illustrate the stupidity of how executive compensation works these days. Bonuses and stock options when times are good, higher cash compensation when the company tanks. The so-called “war on coal” has been good to these men.

In conjunction with their report, Public Citizen also sent letters to the CEOs of the three companies asking them to invest in a trust fund for laid-off employees.

Nice gesture. But the folks at Public Citizen surely know that a positive response to their request is about as likely to happen as coal-fired steam locomotives making a comeback.

The guys at the top may no longer qualify as coal barons, but they’ve adequately padded their nests with millions of dollars extracted the way they extracted the coal itself, ripping the resource from the ground and leaving the economic, environmental and social debris from their operations for somebody else to clean up.

The Public Citizen report points out:

Although these companies and their trade association allies have often blamed environmental regulations for their precarious financial state, the truth is that debt-fueled acquisitions hobbled their finances at a time when market conditions were rapidly souring. Namely, Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal bet big on future Chinese coal demand growth in 2011, going into debt to finance major expansions into metallurgical coal production during the year it was at peak price, only to see markets decline soon after the transactions were complete. [...]

Instead of taking responsibility for their decisions, coal industry representatives lay the blame for their financial woes on mine workers, unions, environmental regulations, and the federal government in an effort to shirk their contractual obligations. In 2015, West Virginia Coal Association President Billy Raney blamed the federal government for the coal industry’s economic problems.

Of Alpha Natural Resources, which filed for bankruptcy last year, Nicole Gentile wrote:

Seven executives and eight other employees who remain unnamed in court documents are eligible for the bonus if they hit certain metrics for cutting costs while protecting the company’s cash reserves. Top executives were already promised $2 million retention bonuses for staying with the company through August 2016. These bonuses are described by Alpha as incentives to ensure high-level performance, something that is apparently not covered by annual salaries. In 2014, as the company was evidently on the verge of financial collapse, Alpha paid CEO Kevin Crutchfield nearly $8 million, and former President Paul Vinning more than $4.5 million.

The plan to dole out millions of dollars to the same executives that bankrupted the company is the latest in a series of controversial steps taken by the industry giant. Late last year, Alpha also proposed to eliminate health insurance, disability, and other benefits for mine workers. According to court documents, this move would affect more than 4,500 disabled former employees, non-union retirees, and their families.

Complaints to Alpha’s shareholders about such bonuses were obviously bound to be ignored. Those executives are, after all, just doing what they have been bidden to do, right? If they performed their screw-job efficiently, surely they deserved the extra money for it.

Then there’s Peabody. It created the Patriot Coal Corporation specifically to walk away from its contractually mandated benefits to retirees and disabled workers. Patriot filed for Chapter 11 protection just two years after acquiring the financial obligations for these workers. The bankruptcy outcome means the workers and retirees will get few if any of the obligations their union had negotiated.

Last September, Tim McDonnell at Mother Jones wrote:

According to a report today from the Institute for Policy Studies, which bills itself as the country’s oldest progressive think tank, executive salaries and bonuses at the top 10 publicly traded coal companies increased an average of 8 percent between 2010 and 2014, even as the companies’ combined share price fell 58 percent.Meanwhile, the same executives cashed in well over $100 million in stock options, according to the report, which analyzed the companies’ public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In other words, coal execs are cashing in while their companies tank. ”That [stock-based] part of their compensation package is not so valuable right now, so the value of their cash-based pay has been going up,” said Sarah Anderson, the report’s author. “We’re seeing this move to insulate them from the implosion of the coal sector by handing out more cash.”

It’s not just coal companies. From that IPS study cited by McDonnell and titled Executive Excess 2015: Money to Burn:

Bonus incentives: None of the 30 oil, gas, and coal companies on our list reward their executives for diversifying into green energy or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A review of the 13 oil producers on our list revealed that all of them reward executives for expanding carbon reserves.

Retirement security: The ongoing disregard for our environment that fossil fuel executives have shown has left the future much less secure for billions of people around the world. These same executives, meanwhile, can all look forward to lavishly secure futures. Executives at America’s top 30 oil, gas, and coal firms have accumulated company-provided retirement assets worth a combined $1.2 billion, enough to cover the entire flood control budget of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for nearly three years. […]

The CEOs of the 30 largest U.S. publicly held fossil fuel companies took in an average $14.7 million in 2014, over 9 percent more than the average $13.5 million that went that year to S&P 500 CEOs. […] The 30 fossil fuel CEOs had outsized pay packages, despite leading companies with market caps that are smaller on average than the S&P 500.

Ordinary American taxpayers prop up this stratospheric pay for oil, gas, and coal executives through federal subsidies to fossil fuel companies. According to Oil Change International, these subsidies run about $37.5 billion per year.

It’s a grotesque system that penalizes workers, investors, taxpayers and the planet itself while rewarding those whose policies, lobbyists and campaign funding of climate change-denying politicians have kept us headed into the ever-growing climate crisis long after critics warned us and them it would happen.

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Sunset Roadless Area is protected from fossil fuel development by the Colorado Roadless Rule. But the Forest Service is considering a loophole in the Rule that would allow Arch Coal to start drilling as soon as this fall.

Arch Coal’s plan is to bulldoze through the Sunset Roadless Area and drill nearly 50 drilling pads to access 19 million tons of coal. From start to finish, this plan would be devastating for our climate and the people and wildlife that call this area home.

Building roads and mining coal destroys the forest habitat of wildlife and pollutes our air and water. Burning coal that should be kept in the ground releases millions of tons of climate-disrupting pollution.

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5,000-acre Sunset Roadless Area in western Colorado’s Gunnison National Forest is a place worth protecting. It provides crucial winter habitat for big game herds, denning areas for the rare Canada lynx, and watersheds that support populations of imperiled Colorado River cutthroat trout.

It makes no sense to bulldoze this area for dirty coal, especially now when America needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and keep some fossil fuels in the ground to avoid the worst impacts of climate change for ourselves, our children and future generations.

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U.S. Forest Service is considering letting Arch Coal, the second biggest coal company in the country, bulldoze thousands of acres of publicly-owned roadless forest in order to mine more than 170 million tons of coal and create hundreds of methane well pads.  12/15

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he air was hazy from distant wildfires on August 29 when a gift arrived on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in southeast Montana. Carvers from the Lummi Tribe in Washington state brought a totem pole as a sign of support for those fighting the Otter Creek project, a proposed strip mine and rail spur on the Northern Cheyenne Tribe’s traditional lands.

At a ceremony marking the pole’s arrival, ranchers, whose families have been on the land for generations, and tribal members, whose families go back even further, joined together to speak of the sacredness of the land and water, and of their duty to protect this inheritance for generations to come

The new mine would extract around 1.3 billion tons of coal. Arch Coal and its partners would blast a new rail spur through hills, across ranches, and along the Tongue River to connect the mine to the Burlington Northern main line. Open train cars would carry coal to a proposed export terminal to be built on the Lummi Tribe’s traditional lands. From there, the coal could be shipped to Asia; burning it would emit billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Although some welcome the jobs associated with this project, thousands—from southeast Montana to the Pacific coast—have expressed opposition, citing concerns about pollution, noise, impacts on fisheries, and climate change.

But local leaders who resist mining, fracking, and pipelines face a gauntlet of challenges. The people of Denton, Texas, for example, overwhelmingly adopted a fracking ban, even though opponents outspent them nearly 10 to 1. But then the Texas legislature overturned their ban with a law that preempts local ordinances like Denton’s.

Even when local leaders get state and national support, corporations can still have the last word. Provisions in many trade agreements, including NAFTA, allow foreign corporations to sue governments for lost profits. According to Manuel Pérez-Rocha, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, these investor-state dispute settlement provisions are increasingly pitting governments against foreign mining or drilling companies in front of trade panels made up of three attorneys empowered to make decisions that supersede local, state, and federal law.

Here’s one example: In 2009, the Canadian-based Pacific Rim mining company (now owned by Australian-based OceanaGold) sued El Salvador for refusing to allow the company to mine for gold. El Salvador had banned the project due to widespread water contamination. The lawsuit demands $300 million from the small, impoverished country. Even if El Salvador prevails, it will be out millions of dollars in legal costs, according to Pérez-Rocha.

Now that the text has been officially released, we know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would extend this sort of investor-state provision to countries that represent 40 percent of the global economy.

How would this apply to the Otter Creek dispute? Because Arch Coal is a U.S. corporation, Pérez-Rocha told me, it could not sue under investor-state provisions, unless the company sold out to a foreign company based in one of the countries covered by one of these trade agreements. As shown by the El Salvador case, that kind of buyout is not unusual, Pérez-Rocha says.

The TPP and other global trade pacts take away the power of governments to protect the environment. As I’ve traveled across the United States, visiting reservations, hollowed-out rust belt cities, and farming towns, I’ve met people working to combat climate change and racial exclusion, and to rebuild local food systems and economies. I believe that work represents our best shot at navigating the crises now unfolding around us. Instead of making global laws that increase the power of giant corporations, our policies should support people in communities everywhere who are building a better world.

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alpha busted docs

hristopher Horner, an attorney who <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/07/ec.01.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">claims</a> that the earth is cooling, is known within the scientific community for hounding climate change researchers with relentless investigations and public ridicule, often deriding scientists as “communists” and frauds.

Horner is a regular guest on Fox News and CNN, and has <a href="http://fmelawclinic.org/?page_id=160" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">been affiliated</a> with a number of think tanks and legal organizations over the last decade. He has called for investigations of climate scientists affiliated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA, and inundated climate researchers at major universities across the country with records requests that critics say are designed to distract them from their work.

New court documents reveal one source of Horner’s funding: big coal.

Last Thursday’s <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/25/coal-giant-bankruptcy-reveals-secret-ties-republican-dark-money-groups/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">bankruptcy filing</a> of Alpha Natural Resources, one of the largest coal companies in America, includes line items for all of the corporation’s contractors and grant recipients. Among them are Horner individually at his home address, as well as the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, where he is a senior staff attorney.

Reached by phone today about his relationship with Alpha Natural Resources, Horner said he would get back with us. David W. Schnare, director of the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic, subsequently emailed a response neither confirming nor denying that Horner or his organizations have received funding from the coal giant. Schnare said that “nearly all” his organization’s donors “request that we not disclose their names” and noted that under IRS regulations it is not required to do so. Schnare also stated that “the sources of our funding have no role in which cases” his organization prosecutes.

The Alpha Natural Resources filing corroborates the suggestion in a recent email from chief executives of major coal firms that they are underwriting Horner’s current work.

In early June this year, the Coal & Investment Leadership Forum, a trade show, sent this message to its email list: “As the ‘war on coal’ continues, I trust that the commitment we have made to support Chris Horner’s work will eventually create great awareness of the illegal tactics being employed to pass laws that are intended to destroy our industry.” The email was signed by Alliance Resource Partners’ Joe Craft III, Alpha Natural Resources’ Kevin Crutchfield, Drummond Company’s Gary Drummond, Arch Coal’s John Eaves and United Coal Co.’s Jim McGlothlin.

Horner has played a prominent role in the climate science debate for many years, though he has failed to uncover wrongdoing.

In 2009, thousands of emails were hacked from climate researchers at the University of East Anglia. Horner quickly blogged that the “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/14525/blue-dress-moment-may-have-arrived-chris-horner" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">blue-dress moment</a> may have arrived” and began appearing on media outlets to claim that the emails revealed “admissions of falsifying results, collaborating to subvert and violate the laws” in what he dubbed “Climategate.”

“Climategate” became a media phenomenon, with prominent politicians declaring that the emails revealed that climate change is a “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0912/08/ltm.03.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">hoax</a>.” The Koch organization Americans for Prosperity traveled to international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100211133126/http://www.americansforprosperity.org/120809-exposing-hot-air-copenhagen" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">proclaimed</a> that the emails revealed a “scandal.”

Six official investigations later <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/debunking-misinformation-stolen-emails-climategate.html#.VdysfBNViko" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">cleared</a> the University of East Anglia scientists of accusations of any wrongdoing.

Horner has filed numerous records requests for personal emails from climate scientists and litigated to force universities to comply with his requests. Horner continued his investigations of climate scientists earlier this year by filing a records request with John Byrne, distinguished professor of energy climate policy at the University of Delaware. The request was made on behalf of the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic and the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, where Horner is a senior fellow.

“He has been instrumental in orchestrating the attacks on climate scientists over the past decade in the form of vexatious and frivolous FOIA demands, efforts to force scientists to turn over all of their personal email,” says Dr. Michael Mann, a climate scientist <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/02/freedom-to-bully-ucs-2015_0.pdf" style=" box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">targeted</a> by Horner.

Horner has also often cast scientists as villains. He claimed on Alex Jones’ program “Infowars” that climate science is a backdoor strategy for enacting “global governance.” On Fox News, Horner mysteriously claimed that White House science adviser John Holdren is “if not borderline communist — communist.”

In an interview with The Intercept, Dr. Gretchen T. Goldman of the Union of Concerned Scientists said it is “reprehensible” to learn that coal companies are “funding the harassment of scientists.”

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Note: On June 15, 2011, Arch Coal acquired <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Coal_Group" title="International Coal Group">International Coal Group</a>.

Arch Coal is a United States coal mining and processing company. The company mines, processes, and markets bituminous and sub-bituminous coal with low sulfur content in the United States. Arch Coal is the second largest supplier of coal in the U.S.,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a> second only to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy">Peabody Energy</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>. Arch Coal claims to supply 16% of the domestic market<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>. Demand comes mainly from generators of electricity.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> Arch Coal states that it supplies coal to "148 U.S. power plants in 33 states" and has "customers in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Through its national network of mines, Arch Coal provides 6 percent of the electricity generated in the United States."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-Clean_Coal-4" title="">[5]</a>

On June 15, 2011, Arch Coal completed its $3.4B acquisition of West Virginia coal producer <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Coal_Group" title="International Coal Group">International Coal Group</a>. The deal will expand Arch's coal reserves in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachia</a>, and the company said it will rank as the nation’s second largest supplier of metallurgical coal.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a> Arch reported $3,186 million in revenues in 2010, the company’s most profitable year in history.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-arc-6" title="">[7]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Coal_Reserves">1 Coal Reserves</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Future_coal_plans">1.1 Future coal plans</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#History">2 History</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Arch_Coal_Mines">3 Arch Coal Mines</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Arch_Coal_mining_violations">3.1 Arch Coal mining violations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Arch_Coal_to_pay_four_million_for_mining_violations">3.2 Arch Coal to pay four million for mining violations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Colorado_coal_mine_OK_seen_as_a_reversal_of_roadless_rule">3.3 Colorado coal mine OK seen as a reversal of roadless rule</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#U.S._Justice_Department_has_filed_suit_against_Arch_Coal_Inc.">4 U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against Arch Coal Inc.</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Powder_River_Basin_Mining_Rights_and_Operations">5 Powder River Basin Mining Rights and Operations</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Judge_Upholds_Environmental_Court_Challenge">5.1 Judge Upholds Environmental Court Challenge</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Warren_Buffet_and_Bill_Gates_visit_Arch_Coal.27s_Black_Thunder_Mine">5.2 Warren Buffet and Bill Gates visit Arch Coal's Black Thunder Mine</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#State_of_Montana_Sides_with_Arch_Coal_in_Court_Challenge">5.3 State of Montana Sides with Arch Coal in Court Challenge</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Political_Donations_and_Lobbying">6 Political Donations and Lobbying</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Mountaintop_Removal">7 Mountaintop Removal</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#EPA_goes_back_and_forth_on_permit_for_West_Virginia_surface_mine">7.1 EPA goes back and forth on permit for West Virginia surface mine</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#January_2011:_EPA_vetoes_water_permit">7.2 January 2011: EPA vetoes water permit</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Report_shows_Arch_Coal_rejected_reducing_environmental_impacts_at_Spruce_Mine">7.3 Report shows Arch Coal rejected reducing environmental impacts at Spruce Mine</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Funding_for_Clean_Coal">8 Funding for Clean Coal</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#2008:_Arch_Coal_helps_fund_Consortium_for_Clean_Coal_Utilization">8.1 2008: Arch Coal helps fund Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#2010:_Arch_Coal_Buys_Stake_in_Texas_Power_Plant">8.2 2010: Arch Coal Buys Stake in Texas Power Plant</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Arch_Coal_invests_in_.22clean_coal.22_company">8.3 Arch Coal invests in "clean coal" company</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Coal_exports">9 Coal exports</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Northwest_ports_to_be_used_to_export_Powder_River_Basin_coal_to_Asian_markets">9.1 Northwest ports to be used to export Powder River Basin coal to Asian markets</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Proposed_Millennium_Bulk_Logistics_Longview_Terminal">9.1.1 Proposed Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Proposed_Terminal:_Gateway_Pacific_Terminal">9.1.2 Proposed Terminal: Gateway Pacific Terminal</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#BNSF_Rail_expansion">9.1.3 BNSF Rail expansion</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Port_of_St._Helens_potential_candidate_for_coal_export_to_Asia">9.1.4 Port of St. Helens potential candidate for coal export to Asia</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Port_of_Coos_Bay_in_Oregon_considers_coal_exports">9.1.5 Port of Coos Bay in Oregon considers coal exports</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Citizen_action_and_protest">10 Citizen action and protest</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#February_5.2C_2009:Rising_Tide_Boston_crashes_Harvard_lecture_by_Arch_Coal_CEO:Cambridge.2C_MA">10.1 February 5, 2009: Rising Tide Boston crashes Harvard lecture by Arch Coal CEO: Cambridge, MA</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#September_14.2C_2010:_Rainforest_Action_Network_protests_Arch_Coal_mine">10.2 September 14, 2010: Rainforest Action Network protests Arch Coal mine</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Industry_affiliations">11 Industry affiliations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Government_affiliations">12 Government affiliations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Headquarters">13 Headquarters</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Articles_and_Resources">14 Articles and Resources</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Related_SourceWatch_Articles">14.1 Related SourceWatch Articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#References">14.2 References</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#Authorship_of_this_article">15 Authorship of this article</a></li>

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<h2>Coal Reserves</h2>

Arch Coal operates 14 mining complexes and controls approximately 5.5 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves, located in Central Appalachia, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>, and the Western Bituminous regions.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-arc-6" title="">[7]</a> The company operates mines in Colorado, Kentucky, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Montana and Wyoming, and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a> The company sells a substantial amount of its coal to producers of electric power, steel producers and industrial facilities.

<h3>Future coal plans</h3>

In November of 2009 the bank HSBC released a report entitled, "The Green Side of Black" that made estimates about coal's involvement in the future of the U.S. energy economy. In it, the bank reported that coal, even under cap-and-trade, will be a lucrative industry in the future. The author of the report also stated that Wyoming's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> will be growing faster than other coal regions in the United States. The HSBC report stated that in Arch Coal and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy">Peabody Energy</a> will be especially prosperous because of their extensive involvement in the Powder River Basin.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a>

<h2>History</h2>

Arch Mineral Corporation was founded in 1969 as a partnership between Ashland Oil (now Ashland, Inc.) and the H. L. Hunt family of Dallas, Texas. Ashland Coal, Inc. was formed in 1975 as a subsidiary of Ashland Oil. The privately held Arch Mineral Corporation merged with Ashland Coal, Inc. in July 1997, creating the present-day company.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a>

In early May 2011, Arch Coal announced that it would take over the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Coal_Group" title="International Coal Group">International Coal Group</a> in a cash transaction worth $3.4 billion. Arch stated that the combined company would be "the second largest U.S. metallurgical coal supplier and a top-five overall global coal producer and marketer". The company stated that it estimated that the combined company would have total shipments of approximately 179 million tons of coal and $4.3 billion in revenues with approximately "50 percent of earnings generated from eastern operations and 50 percent from western operations." Bridge financing for the deal was provided by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Morgan_Stanley" title="Morgan Stanley">Morgan Stanley</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PNC" title="PNC" class="mw-redirect">PNC</a>. The company stated that it expected the deal to be completed in the second quarter of 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a>

In Feb. 2011, former Wyoming Gov. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dave_Freudenthal" title="Dave Freudenthal">Dave Freudenthal</a> was elected to the board of directors of Arch Coal.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a>

In May 2011 Arch Coal announced that it was establishing a new subsidiary, Arch Coal Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd., and named <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Renato_Paladino&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Renato Paladino (page does not exist)">Renato Paladino</a> president. The new office will be located in Singapore and will be used as a hub for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_exports" title="Coal exports">coal exports</a> in the Asia-Pacific region.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a>

<h2>Arch Coal Mines</h2>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> area:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Black_Thunder_Mine" title="Black Thunder Mine">Black Thunder Mine</a> (Wyoming)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_Creek_Mine" title="Coal Creek Mine">Coal Creek Mine</a> (Wyoming)</li>

</ul>

Western Bituminous:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_of_Wyoming_Mine" title="Arch of Wyoming Mine">Arch of Wyoming Mine</a> (Wyoming)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dugout_Canyon_Mine" title="Dugout Canyon Mine">Dugout Canyon Mine</a> (Utah)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sufco_Mine" title="Sufco Mine">Sufco Mine</a> (Utah)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Skyline_Complex" title="Skyline Complex">Skyline Complex</a> (Utah)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=West_Elk_Mine" title="West Elk Mine">West Elk Mine</a> (Colorado)</li>

</ul>

Central Appalachia:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Band_Mill_2_Mine" title="Band Mill 2 Mine">Band Mill 2 Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blue_Ridge_Surface_Mine" title="Blue Ridge Surface Mine">Blue Ridge Surface Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clover_Fork_1_Mine" title="Clover Fork 1 Mine">Clover Fork 1 Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal-Mac_Mine" title="Coal-Mac Mine">Coal-Mac Mine</a> (West Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cumberland_River_Mine" title="Cumberland River Mine">Cumberland River Mine</a> (Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Darby_Fork_No_1_Mine" title="Darby Fork No 1 Mine">Darby Fork No 1 Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hampton_Mine" title="Hampton Mine">Hampton Mine</a> (Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Holden_22_Surface_Mine" title="Holden 22 Surface Mine">Holden 22 Surface Mine</a> (West Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Huff_Creek_Mine" title="Huff Creek Mine">Huff Creek Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lone_Mountain_Mine" title="Lone Mountain Mine">Lone Mountain Mine</a> (Kentucky/Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountain_Laurel_Complex" title="Mountain Laurel Complex">Mountain Laurel Complex</a> (West Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaineer_II_Mine" title="Mountaineer II Mine">Mountaineer II Mine</a> (West Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pardee_Surface_Mine" title="Pardee Surface Mine">Pardee Surface Mine</a> (Virginia)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Parson_1_Mine" title="Parson 1 Mine">Parson 1 Mine</a> (Kentucky)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine">Spruce 1 Mine</a> (West Virginia)</li>

</ul>

<h3>Arch Coal mining violations</h3>

Arch subsidiary Cumberland River Coal Co. received an imminent danger notice from federal regulators on October 14, 2010 after three coal trucks operated by an independent contractor, Lemar Trucking Co. Inc., were allegedly operating in an unsafe manner on a mine haul and access road at Pine Branch 1 coal mine in Appalachia, Virginia.

Then on October 15, 2010, another Arch subsidiary, Canyon Fuel Co., received an imminent danger order from the federal government about a pipe in its rock dust transfer system that was improperly grounded at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dugout_Canyon_Mine" title="Dugout Canyon Mine">Dugout Canyon Mine</a> in Utah.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-13" title="">[14]</a>

<h3>Arch Coal to pay four million for mining violations</h3>

On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced that Arch Coal had agreed to pay a $4 million dollar penalty for alleged violations of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a> in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and will implement changes to its mining operations to ensure compliance. In the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/decrees/civil/cwa/arch-cd.pdf" class="external text" title="http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/decrees/civil/cwa/arch-cd.pdf" rel="nofollow">settlement</a>, Arch Coal agreed to take measures that will prevent an estimated 2 million pounds of pollution from entering the nation’s waters each year. Arch will also implement a treatment system to reduce discharges of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Selenium" title="Selenium">selenium</a>, a pollutant found in mine discharges, which can run off and build up in streams, with adverse impacts on aquatic organisms. Arch Coal agreed to implement a series of inspections, audits and tracking measures to ensure treatment systems are working properly.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-cwas-14" title="">[15]</a>

A joint federal-state complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of West Virginia by the United States, West Virginia, and Kentucky alleged numerous violations of Arch Coal’s permits that set limits on pollutants to be discharged into streams. The alleged excess discharges of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iron" title="Iron">iron</a>, total suspended solids, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manganese" title="Manganese">manganese</a> and other pollutants reflect deficiencies in operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment systems in place at four of the company’s mining facilities: Coal Mac, Inc; Lone Mountain Processing, Inc; Cumberland River Coal Co.; and Mingo Logan Coal Co. Under the settlement, $2 million of the $4 million civil penalty will be paid to the United States and the remaining $2 million will be divided between West Virginia and Kentucky based on the percentage of alleged violations in each state.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-cwas-14" title="">[15]</a>

On Oct. 3, 2011, a coalition of conservation and environmental groups announced completion of a legal settlement with Arch Coal and its subsidiaries, which will require the coal mining company to clean up toxic run off from six coal mines in Logan County, West Virginia. The original suit was filed against Arch in June of 2010 for violating limits on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Selenium" title="Selenium">selenium</a> at those locations. Under the deal, Arch Coal agreed to install new equipment to control discharges, and agreed to pay the citizen groups' legal expenses, pay a $200,000 fine to the federal government, and contribute $1.8 million to the Land Use and Sustainable Development Clinic at West Virginia University’s College of Law. The settlement also requires strict monitoring of selenium treatment at the six sites: if the mines continue to discharge selenium above permit limits, Arch Coal will have to pay up to $25,000 for each new violation.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-15" title="">[16]</a>

<h3>Colorado coal mine OK seen as a reversal of roadless rule</h3>

On November 8, 2011 the United States Forest Service approved a 1,700-acre expansion of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=West_Elk_Mine" title="West Elk Mine">West Elk Mine</a> on Colorado’s Western Slope.

West Elk is owned by Arch Coal, who praised the decision for its job-saving potential. Environmental groups blasted the USFS ruling for its possible industrialization of the pristine Sunset Trail roadless area adjacent to the West Elk Wilderness Area. The West Elk mine expansion would be mostly underground, however Arch Coal would construct up to 48 well pads and 6.5 miles of roads in the Sunset Trail area in order to vent methane gas from the coal mine.

“The Forest Service is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory,” said Earthjustice attorney Ted Zukoski. “The administration should not be paving the way for an incursion into roadless lands when a court has just upheld its authority to protect those lands. This administration promised to protect Colorado roadless areas as well or better than the 2001 Roadless Rule required. It doesn’t look like they intend to live up to that promise.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-16" title="">[17]</a>

<h2>U.S. Justice Department has filed suit against Arch Coal Inc.</h2>

On Friday, April 8, 2011 the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued Arch Coal along with three other companies for being allegedly responsible the contamination at the Cape Girardeau site because the company arranged for disposal of transformers and other electrical equipment that contained cancer-causing PCBs. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to hold the companies liable for any future cleanup costs or damages.

The government alleged in its suit that Arch's predecessor, Arch Minerals Corp., is partly for the contamination.

It was reported that the lawsuit represented the latest movement in a long-running effort to clean up the 6-acre site where Missouri Electric Works Inc. sold, serviced and repaired electrical transformers and other equipment from the years of 1954 to 1988. In the 1980s environmental regulators discovered that much of the property had been contaminated with PCB-laced oil from transformers and storage drums, contaminating the soil and groundwater with toxic chemicals.

The cleanup of the site began years ago, as are efforts to collect money from companies believed to be responsible for the pollution.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-17" title="">[18]</a>

<h2>Powder River Basin Mining Rights and Operations</h2>

On November 12, 2009 Arch Coal (ACI) announced that it is leasing 9,600 acres in southeastern Montana's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>. It is estimated that the property holds 731 million tons of coal reserves. The company will pay <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Great_Northern_Properties" title="Great Northern Properties">Great Northern Properties</a> five annual installments of $73.1 million.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-18" title="">[19]</a>

On March 17, 2010 Arch Coal put in the first bid for rights to mine Montana's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Otter_Creek" title="Otter Creek">Otter Creek</a> coal at $86 million. This would include future royalties for the right to mine a 500 million tons of state-owned coal in southeastern Montana near the Wyoming border in the area known as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>. As of early 2010, Arch controlled 731 million tons of coal in Otter Creek. On March 18 it was announced that the Montana Land Board approved the company's bid and will now have the rights to mine 8,300 acres in the area.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-19" title="">[20]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-20" title="">[21]</a>

In all Arch Coal controls 1.5 billion tons of coal on state and private land in Otter Creek. In June, 2010 the company along with Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, toured Otter Creek where Arch Coal executives stated that they will aggressively pursue state permitting and hope to begin mining by the middle of the decade.

In July 2010, two separate lawsuits were filed by the Sierra Club and Montana Environmental Information Center which challenged the state lease on the grounds that the Montana Land Board did not properly address the 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide emitted by the mined coal prior to the lease.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-21" title="">[22]</a>

In December, 2010 attorneys for the state of Montana defended the lease of 587 million tons of state-owned coal. Representatives of Arch Coal Inc. as well as the Montana Attorney general's office asked a state judge to dismiss the lawsuits challenging the Otter Creek sale. Attorneys for Arch and the state said that review must be done before mining, not at the leasing stage.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-22" title="">[23]</a>

In January 2011, District Court Judge ruled that the groups' lawsuit challenging the Otter Creek Coal Mine was allowed to proceed.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-23" title="">[24]</a>

<h3>Judge Upholds Environmental Court Challenge</h3>

In January 2011 District Judge Joe Hegel rejected an attempt by Arch Coal and the state of Montana to dismiss lawsuits brought in 2010 by four environmental groups. The rejection of the coal industry and state's challenge will allow the groups to move forward with their lawsuit, which claimed that the sale should have been reviewed under the Montana Environmental Policy Act.

Attorneys for Arch and the state had argued such a review must be done before mining, not at the leasing stage. However, Judge Hegel stated environmentalists had made a reasonable claim �� that waiting until a mining application comes in could be too late to protect the constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-24" title="">[25]</a>

<h3>Warren Buffet and Bill Gates visit Arch Coal's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Black_Thunder_Mine" title="Black Thunder Mine">Black Thunder Mine</a></h3>

In November 2010 Warren Buffet and billionaire Bill Gates, a Berkshire director, visited the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Black_Thunder_Mine" title="Black Thunder Mine">Black Thunder Mine</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> in Wyoming. Buffett was quoted later as saying that he found the trip to the mine “fascinating.” Neither gave interviews during the tour, but some speculated that the trip was an indication that the two were looking to invest in the coal mining project, including coal exports to Asia.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-25" title="">[26]</a> However, in the past Bill Gates has stated that coal and natural gas must be phased out by 2050.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-26" title="">[27]</a>

<h3>State of Montana Sides with Arch Coal in Court Challenge</h3>

The State of Montana and Arch Coal Inc. sided against environmental groups in September 2011 when the groups attempted to stop the company's plan to mine 1.3 billion ton Otter Creek research near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Arch paid $159 million to both Montana and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Great_Northern_Properties" title="Great Northern Properties">Great Northern Properties</a> for the Otter Creek lease. The deal was backed from Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

The Sierra Club and other groups asked District Judge Joe Hegel to cancel the 10-year lease. The groups wanted more studies of the environmental impacts of the mine, including the greenhouse gas emissions that will come from the burning of coal. State officials and Arch Coal said studies will come later but that the permit should not be revoked.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-27" title="">[28]</a>

<h2>Political Donations and Lobbying</h2>

In 2009, the coal mining lobby donated $10,423,347 to members of Congress. Of that, the top three major contributors included Arch Coal, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CONSOL_Energy" title="CONSOL Energy">CONSOL Energy</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy">Peabody Energy</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-28" title="">[29]</a>

The Arch Coal PAC (political action committee) is a substantial donor to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=West_Virginia" title="West Virginia" class="mw-redirect">West Virginia</a> politicians.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-29" title="">[30]</a>

The company spent $760,000 on staff lobbyists in 2008 which during the year included <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Altmeyer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Altmeyer (page does not exist)">Thomas Altmeyer</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Snider&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Snider (page does not exist)">John Snider</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-30" title="">[31]</a>

In 2009 Arch Coal spent over $2.32 million on lobbying efforts. In 2010, Arch Coal spent $1.9 million and as of July 2011, they spent $920,000.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-31" title="">[32]</a>

<h2>Mountaintop Removal</h2>

The company practices <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> mining, which is controversial because it reduces the height of mountains (sometimes by 600 to 800 feet), removes all vegetation and places mining waste or overburden into mountain streams, causing flooding, erosion, and water contamination.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-32" title="">[33]</a> In 2009, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=JPMorgan_Chase" title="JPMorgan Chase">JPMorgan Chase</a> helped finance $600 million for Arch Coal, which that year mined 4.7 million tons of coal using MTR.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-mj-33" title="">[34]</a>

Arch Coal's West Virginia mining operations in the Appalachian Mountains were the subject of a critical documentary in 2002 on Now with Bill Moyers on PBS.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-34" title="">[35]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-35" title="">[36]</a>.

Arch's Dal-Tex mining operations above the town of Blair, West Virginia were the subject of a 1998 US News and World Report story "Shear Madness" by Penny Loeb <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-36" title="">[37]</a>. The story documented the impacts of mountaintop removal on communities close to the mines and their subsequent depopulation. A landmark 1999 lawsuit brought by the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Bragg v. Robertson was the first successful citizen lawsuit to stop Arch's proposed mountaintop removal valley fill. The fill would have buried several miles of stream at Pigeon Roost Hollow near Blair, West Virginia <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-37" title="">[38]</a>

In his ruling for the plaintiffs, Judge Charles H. Haden stated that "If there is any life form that cannot acclimate to life deep in a rubble pile, it is eliminated. No effect on related environmental values is more adverse than obliteration...Under a valley fill the water quality of the stream becomes zero. Because there is no stream, there is no water quality."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-38" title="">[39]</a>

<h3>EPA goes back and forth on permit for West Virginia surface mine</h3>

On October 16, 2009, the EPA announced that it planned to use its authority to halt the permit for Mingo Logan Coal's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine">Spruce 1 Mine</a>, which is owned by Arch Coal. The agency said it was acting on its authority for the first time since the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a> was enacted in 1972. The project at issue would be the largest authorized <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> operation in Appalachia. In a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, EPA Regional Administrator William Early said the action "reflects the magnitude and scale of anticipated direct, indirect, and cumulative adverse environmental impacts associated with this mountaintop removal mining operation."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-39" title="">[40]</a>

However, on January 5, 2010, a federal court in West Virginia agreed to extend a deadline for discussions with Arch Coal Inc.'s Mingo Logan Mining Co. about the mine's permit, which was halted in October.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-40" title="">[41]</a>

On March 2, 2010 the EPA announced that it had granted a Clean Water Act permit for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hobet_45&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hobet 45 (page does not exist)">Hobet 45</a> mine in Lincoln County, West Virginia after Hobet Mining LLC, a company owned by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patriot_Coal" title="Patriot Coal">Patriot Coal</a>, had agreed to additional "significant protections" against environmental impacts. The permit now must be approved by the Army Corps of Engineers. Additionally, the EPA said it extended the agency's talks with Mingo Logan Mining Co., owned by Arch Coal, in regard to environmental and water quality concerns about its Spruce No. 1 mine in Logan County, West Virginia. Opponents of the permits, citing groundwater pollution from mountaintop removal projects stated that, “Enforceable minimum waste management requirements for dry disposal of coal ash in landfills should include siting restrictions, liners, groundwater monitoring, leachate collection, and financial assurance, closure requirements, post-closure care, and corrective action.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-41" title="">[42]</a>

On March 26, 2010, it was announced that the EPA was to veto Arch Coal's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine">Spruce 1 Mine</a>. The project would be the largest <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> venture in the entire Appalachia region. As of March 28, 2010 the company said it would defend the mining proposal.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-42" title="">[43]</a>

<h3>January 2011: EPA vetoes water permit</h3>

On January 13, 2011, it was announced that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect">EPA</a> had vetoed the water permit for the mine, the largest single <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> permit in West Virginia history. In making its decision to veto the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the 2,300-acre mine, <a href="http://wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/sprucefinalveto.pdf" class="external text" title="http://wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/sprucefinalveto.pdf" rel="nofollow">"Final Determination of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pursuant to § 404(c) of the Clean Water Act Concerning the Spruce No. 1 Mine, Logan County, West Virginia"</a>, EPA noted that it reviewed more than 50,000 public comments and held a major public hearing in West Virginia. EPA officials said their agency is “acting under the law and using the best science available to protect water quality, wildlife and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Appalachian" title="Appalachian" class="mw-redirect">Appalachian</a> communities who rely on clean waters for drinking, fishing and swimming.”<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-ct-43" title="">[44]</a>

<h3>Report shows Arch Coal rejected reducing environmental impacts at Spruce Mine</h3>

On January 17, 2011, reporter Ken Ward revealed that Arch Coal had reportedly refused to consider paying an extra 55 cents a ton for coal in order to meet <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=EPA" title="EPA" class="mw-redirect">EPA</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water Act</a> standards for a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> operation in West Virginia - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine">Spruce 1 Mine</a> - despite posting over $700 million in earnings for 2010.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-kwj-44" title="">[45]</a>

Ward uncovered a Sep. 2010 engineering report prepared for the EPA which showed that Arch Coal could have cut the stream damage from its proposed Spruce Mine in half without significantly increasing coal-production costs. Specifically, permanent and temporary stream burial could have been cut from 8.3 miles to about 3.4 miles under one alternative mining plan developed for EPA by engineering firm Morgan Worldwide. The alternative mining plan would have raised production costs for Arch subsidiary Mingo Logan Coal Co. by 55 cents per ton, about 1 percent of the expected per-ton sales price, according to the report obtained under the federal <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Freedom_of_Information_Act" title="Freedom of Information Act" class="mw-redirect">Freedom of Information Act</a>. Arch Coal did not adopt the recommended changes for the Spruce Mine, and in early Jan. 2011, EPA officials revoked the operation's Clean Water Act permit, citing "destructive and unsustainable mining practices" proposed by the company.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-kwj-44" title="">[45]</a>

West Virginia political leaders have harshly criticized EPA for its action against the Spruce Mine, and the EPA decision prompted Acting Gov. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Earl_Ray_Tomblin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Earl Ray Tomblin (page does not exist)">Earl Ray Tomblin</a> to announce a "rally for coal" at the Capitol. Ward points out that supporters of the Spruce Mine have not publicly questioned whether the company could -- or should -- have done more to reduce the project's impacts, as the uncovered report suggested.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-kwj-44" title="">[45]</a>

<h2>Funding for Clean Coal</h2>

<h3>2008: Arch Coal helps fund Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization</h3>

In December 2008 Arch Coal announced that it would contribute $1 million a year for a five year period to fund the the establishment of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Consortium_for_Clean_Coal_Utilization" title="Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization">Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization</a> at Washington University in St. Louis. The project will be run by the university's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=International_Center_for_Advanced_Renewable_Energy_and_Sustainability" title="International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability">International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability</a>(I-CARES).<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-Clean_Coal-4" title="">[5]</a>

<h3>2010: Arch Coal Buys Stake in Texas Power Plant</h3>

On March 12, 2010 it was announced that Arch Coal purchased a 35 percent minority equity stake in the developing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Trailblazer_Energy_Center" title="Trailblazer Energy Center">Trailblazer Energy Center</a>. Arch stated that they will supply Trailblazer with its fuel needs for its first 20 years of operations. Coal burned in the plant will come from Arch's mines in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>. Arch believes that the plant will eventually utilize so-called "clean coal" technology. In 2009 Arch donated $1.5 million to the University of Wyoming for research on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carbon_sequestration" title="Carbon sequestration" class="mw-redirect">carbon sequestration</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-45" title="">[46]</a>

<h3>Arch Coal invests in "clean coal" company</h3>

On March 23, 2010 it was announced that Arch Coal invested $3 million in ADA, a "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Clean_coal" title="Clean coal" class="mw-redirect">clean coal</a>" technologies firm that has developed "technologies that improve the performance of coals from Wyoming's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>." CEO of ADA stated in an announcement, "This investment will continue our long-standing relationship with Arch and allow the Company to fund opportunities that have the potential for significant near-term increases in revenues and earnings such as CyClean. As Congress is considering a year extension to the Section 45 tax credits, we want to be in a position to respond quickly to sell and install additional CyClean systems to produce refined coal."

CyClean technology is an additive that is added to coal prior to combustion which the company states reduces mercury and nitrogen oxide emissions.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-46" title="">[47]</a>

<h2>Coal exports</h2>

It was also reported in September 2011 that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ridley_Terminals" title="Ridley Terminals" class="mw-redirect">Ridley Terminals</a>, located in British Columbia, announced export deals with Arch Coal, Black Hills Corporation and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cloud_Peak_Energy" title="Cloud Peak Energy">Cloud Peak Energy</a>, all of which operate coal mines in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a>. The company is also looking into exporting coal from ports located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-platts-47" title="">[48]</a>

<h3>Northwest ports to be used to export Powder River Basin coal to Asian markets</h3>

For more information on the proposed port developments in the western United States please visit the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coal_exports_from_northwest_United_States_ports" title="Coal exports from northwest United States ports" class="mw-redirect">Coal exports from northwest United States ports</a> article.

<h4>Proposed Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal</h4>

In September 2010 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy">Peabody Energy</a> announced that "Coal's best days are ahead." Peabody stated that exports of coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming will be central to its expansion goals. The Oregonian in September 2010 reported that Northwest ports, and in particular ports in Portland, Oregon, may be used in the future to export coal to Asia. The Port of Portland said it doesn't have the space for coal exports in the short-term, but its consultants cited coal as a potential long-term market if it adds terminals on West Hayden Island.

<div class="thumbcaption">Coal Export Threatens the Northwest.</div>

</div>

In early November 2010 Australia-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ambre_Energy" title="Ambre Energy">Ambre Energy</a> asked Cowlitz County officials in southern Washington State, which borders Oregon, to approve a port redevelopment that would allow for the export of 5 million tons of coal annually. On November 23 Cowlitz County officials approved the permit for the port redevelopment, which is to be located at the private Chinook Ventures port in Longview, Washington. Coal terminals also are proposed at two other sites along the Columbia River.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-48" title="">[49]</a>

<div class="thumbcaption">Coalition Protests Ambre Energy's Push for Coal Exports.</div>

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Environmentalists stated that they would oppose any such actions, arguing that coal contributes to pollution and global warming.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-49" title="">[50]</a> Early discussion of how many jobs the port would produce was roughly twenty total.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-50" title="">[51]</a>

In November 2010 Powder River Basin coal producer Cloud Peak Energy CEO Colin Marshall stated that a coal port on the West Coast was "absolutely more than a pipedream."

Other Powder River Basin producers, including top US coal miner Peabody Energy, have talked about the potential for a new export facility on the West Coast, with Oregon and Washington being mentioned as the top locations of choice.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-51" title="">[52]</a>

Groups including the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club">Sierra Club</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Columbia_Riverkeeper" title="Columbia Riverkeeper">Columbia Riverkeeper</a> have vowed to stop the industry's expansion into Asia, a market currently dominated by coal from Australia and Indonesia.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-52" title="">[53]</a>

<h4>Proposed Terminal: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gateway_Pacific_Terminal" title="Gateway Pacific Terminal">Gateway Pacific Terminal</a></h4>

The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gateway_Pacific_Terminal" title="Gateway Pacific Terminal">Gateway Pacific Terminal</a> is a proposed terminal at Cherry Point near Ferndale, Washington, and would have a maximum capacity of about 54 million tons. On February 28, 2011, SSA Marine applied for state and federal permits for the $500 million terminal, triggering formal environmental review. If approved, the terminal would begin construction in early 2013 and operations in 2015.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-js-53" title="">[54]</a>

On March 1, 2011, Seattle-based SSA Marine announced it had entered into an agreement with St. Louis-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Peabody_Energy" title="Peabody Energy">Peabody Energy</a> to export up to 24 million metric tons of coal per year through the Gateway Pacific Terminal. Goldman Sachs owns a portion of SSA Marine's parent company. According to Peabody, the terminal in Whatcom County would serve as the West Coast hub for exporting Peabody's coal from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> of Wyoming and Montana to Asian markets. The project would ramp up potential <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._coal_exports" title="U.S. coal exports">U.S. coal exports</a> to Asia from Washington state. Another coal export terminal proposed in Longview, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Millennium_Bulk_Logistics_Longview_Terminal" title="Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal">Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal</a> in southwest Washington, has drawn environmental opposition. That Millennium Bulk Logistics terminal would be a joint venture between Australia-based <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ambre_Energy" title="Ambre Energy">Ambre Energy</a> and Arch Coal.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-st-54" title="">[55]</a>

Environmental groups have appealed to Washington's Shoreline Hearings Board over a permit awarded for the port by Cowlitz County commissioners.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-st-54" title="">[55]</a>

According to Gateway Pacific Terminal's website the company plans on providing a "highly efficient portal for American producers to export dry bulk commodities such as grain, potash and coal to Asian markets." Additionally, the site contends that the "Gateway project will generate about 4,000 jobs and about $54 million a year in tax revenue for state and local services. Once in full operation, it's estimated that Gateway will provide almost $10 million a year in tax revenue, create about 280 permanent family-wage jobs directly, and nearly 1,400 additional jobs through terminal purchases and employee spending."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-55" title="">[56]</a>

<h4>BNSF Rail expansion</h4>

In July 2011, billionaire Forrest E. Mars, Jr. reached an agreement with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BNSF_Railway" title="BNSF Railway" class="mw-redirect">BNSF Railway</a> and coal giant Arch Coal to buy one-third of the Tongue River Railroad. The purchase would prevent the construction of a proposed railway along major stretch of the Tongue River Valley in southeastern Montana - from Decker near the Wyoming border, to the southern border of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation near Birney - but would allow for the portion of the proposed railroad between O'Dell road, approximately 10 miles south of Ashland, and Miles City. Mars said he would no longer help fund ongoing legal challenges or future litigation related to the controversial 130-mile long railroad that would transport coal from Montana to Midwestern power plants and Asia.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-56" title="">[57]</a>

<h4>Port of St. Helens potential candidate for coal export to Asia</h4>

In June 2011, The Oregonian reported that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Port_of_St._Helens" title="Port of St. Helens">Port of St. Helens</a> in Columbia City, Oregon was being eyed as a potential Northwest port that would export coal to Asian countries. It was also reported that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Columbia_Riverkeeper" title="Columbia Riverkeeper">Columbia Riverkeeper</a>, which opposes coal export, asked a judge to require St. Helens Port to release all of its coal-related documents. In a response, a lawyer for the port stated that doing so would violate a confidentiality agreement and "would result in the greatest harm to the public interest which can be imagined -- a loss of jobs in our community."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-ore-57" title="">[58]</a>

Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber, wrote in a statement to The Oregonian that the terminal "should not happen in the dead of night. We must have an open, vigorous public debate before any projects move forward." Powder River Basin coal will be the main commodity shipped.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-ore-57" title="">[58]</a>

<h4><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Port_of_Coos_Bay" title="Port of Coos Bay">Port of Coos Bay</a> in Oregon considers coal exports</h4>

In July 2011, it was reported that the port in Coos Bay, Oregon was considering coal exports. "We are in discussions with coal developers and have entered into nondisclosure agreements with those companies," Port of Coos Bay CEO Jeff Bishop. "We don't want anyone to be surprised."

Bishop stated the arrival of one coal train per day would create 100 ship calls per year. However, coal exports would bring too many ships for the cargo terminal to handle, stated Bishop. "If any coal terminal is developed in Coos Bay, it would have to be a stand-alone terminal." The coal would largely come from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> coal mines.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-58" title="">[59]</a>

<h2>Citizen action and protest</h2>

<h3>February 5, 2009: Rising Tide Boston crashes Harvard lecture by Arch Coal CEO: Cambridge, MA</h3>

Seven activists from <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rising_Tide_North_America" title="Rising Tide North America">Rising Tide Boston</a> disrupted a lecture given by Arch Coal CEO Steve Leer at Harvard University. Leer was speaking about the future of "clean coal" technology. The activists interjected information on the impacts of coal extraction, including their final question, "What gives you the right to gamble the future of civilization on a magic technology that doesn��t exist?" While Leer tried to ignore the question, two members of Rising Tide carried a banner on stage that read "The coal bubble is bursting - Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie." The lecture was funded by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America" class="mw-redirect">Bank of America</a>, the single largest financial backer of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-59" title="">[60]</a>

<h3>September 14, 2010: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rainforest_Action_Network" title="Rainforest Action Network">Rainforest Action Network</a> protests Arch Coal mine</h3>

In September 2010 the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rainforest_Action_Network" title="Rainforest Action Network">Rainforest Action Network</a> dumped 1,000 pounds of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachia</a> dirt on the sidewalk of EPA headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Arch Coal's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mountaintop_removal" title="Mountaintop removal">mountaintop removal</a> operation, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Spruce_1_Mine" title="Spruce 1 Mine">Spruce 1 Mine</a>. RAN's message: "EPA: Don't Let King Coal Dump On Appalachia." No arrests were reported.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-60" title="">[61]</a>

<h2>Industry affiliations</h2>

Arch Coal is a member of the:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Coal_Council" title="American Coal Council">American Coal Council</a>. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Canon" title="Mark Canon">Mark Canon</a>, who is Vice President Sales for Arch Coal Sales, as a member of the Board of Directors.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-61" title="">[62]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Carbon_Capture_and_Storage_Institute" title="Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute">Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-62" title="">[63]</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Mining_Association" title="National Mining Association">National Mining Association</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-63" title="">[64]</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Government affiliations</h2>

Former Wyoming Gov. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dave_Freudenthal" title="Dave Freudenthal">Dave Freudenthal</a> (2003-2011), who heavily courted China as a trading partner for Wyoming's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Powder_River_Basin" title="Powder River Basin">Powder River Basin</a> coal during his tenure, is a director at Arch Coal. He was elected to the board in February 2011.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_note-64" title="">[65]</a>

<h2>Headquarters</h2>

1 CityPlace Dr., Ste. 300

St. Louis, MO 63141

United States

Phone: 314 994 2700

Website: <a href="http://www.archcoal.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.archcoal.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.archcoal.com/</a>

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<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-0" title="">��</a> <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/arch-coal,-inc./--ID10134--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" class="external text" title="http://www.hoovers.com/arch-coal,-inc./--ID10134--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" rel="nofollow">Arch Coal, Inc.</a> Hoovers.com fact-sheet, accessed November 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/peabody-energy/--ID56753--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" class="external text" title="http://www.hoovers.com/peabody-energy/--ID56753--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" rel="nofollow">Hoovers.com Fact-sheet on Peabody Energy</a> (Retrieved 10/10/06)</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.archcoal.com/aboutus/" class="external text" title="http://www.archcoal.com/aboutus/" rel="nofollow">"About Us,"</a> Arch Coal website, accessed November 2008</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.hoovers.com/arch-coal,-inc./--ID10134--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" class="external text" title="http://www.hoovers.com/arch-coal,-inc./--ID10134--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal,"</a> Hoovers.com</li>

<li id="cite_note-Clean_Coal-4">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-Clean_Coal_4-0" title="">5.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-Clean_Coal_4-1" title="">5.1</a> Arch Coal, <a href="http://news.archcoal.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=351877" class="external text" title="http://news.archcoal.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=351877" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal Pledges $5 Million to Washington University's Energy Consortium to Advance Clean Coal Technology"</a>, Media Release, December 2, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/arch-coal-completes-34b-acquisition-of-west-virginia-coal-producer-icg/2011/06/15/AGd93tVH_story.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/arch-coal-completes-34b-acquisition-of-west-virginia-coal-producer-icg/2011/06/15/AGd93tVH_story.html" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal completes $3.4B acquisition of West Virginia coal producer ICG"</a> Washington Post, June 15, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-arc-6">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-arc_6-0" title="">7.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-arc_6-1" title="">7.1</a> <a href="http://www.archcoal.com/aboutus/" class="external text" title="http://www.archcoal.com/aboutus/" rel="nofollow">"About Us,"</a> Arch Coal website, accessed July 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=ACI" class="external text" title="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=ACI" rel="nofollow">Forbes profile ACI Forbes profile</a> (retrieved 10/10/06)</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=12218" class="external text" title="http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=12218" rel="nofollow">Bank predicts bright future for Wyoming coal under cap-and-trade</a>, Erica Peterson, West Virgina Public Broadcasting, November 30, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E7DF113DF936A35757C0A961958260" class="external text" title="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E7DF113DF936A35757C0A961958260" rel="nofollow">"Ashland Coal and Arch Mineral Are Set to Link"</a>, New York Times, April 5, 1997.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> Arch Coal, <a href="http://news.archcoal.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=107109&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1557665&highlight=" class="external text" title="http://news.archcoal.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=107109&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1557665&highlight=" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal To Acquire ICG for $3.4 Billion"</a>, Media Release, May 2, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/former-wyoming-governor-joins-arch-coal-board.html" class="external text" title="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-23/former-wyoming-governor-joins-arch-coal-board.html" rel="nofollow">"Former Wyoming governor joins Arch Coal board"</a> Bloomberg, Feb. 23, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-12" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arch-coal-establishes-asia-pacific-subsidiary-names-paladino-president-121492324.html" class="external text" title="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/arch-coal-establishes-asia-pacific-subsidiary-names-paladino-president-121492324.html" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal Establishes Asia-Pacific Subsidiary, Names Paladino President"</a> PR Newswire, May 9, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-13"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-13" title="">��</a> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2010/10/18/arch-coal-discloses-mine-problems.html" class="external text" title="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2010/10/18/arch-coal-discloses-mine-problems.html" rel="nofollow">"http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2010/10/18/arch-coal-discloses-mine-problems.html"</a> Kelsey Volkmann, St Louis Business Journal, October 18, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-cwas-14">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-cwas_14-0" title="">15.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-cwas_14-1" title="">15.1</a> <a href="http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/civil/cwa/arch.html" class="external text" title="http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/cases/civil/cwa/arch.html" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal Clean Water Act Settlement"</a> EPA, accessed March 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-15" title="">��</a> <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2011/10/03/arch-coal-to-pay-2-million-to-clean.html" class="external text" title="http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/news/2011/10/03/arch-coal-to-pay-2-million-to-clean.html" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal to pay $2 million to clean up mine pollution"</a> St. Louis Business Journal, October 3, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-16"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-16" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://coloradoindependent.com/105553/colorado-coal-mine-ok-blasted-as-roadless-rule-reversal-by-obama-administration" class="external text" title="http://coloradoindependent.com/105553/colorado-coal-mine-ok-blasted-as-roadless-rule-reversal-by-obama-administration" rel="nofollow">"Colorado coal mine OK blasted as Obama roadless rule reversal"</a> David O. Williams, The Colorado Independent, November 9, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-17"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-17" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/article_25a23caa-140b-5096-914a-4c3cdfbbe429.html" class="external text" title="http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/article_25a23caa-140b-5096-914a-4c3cdfbbe429.html" rel="nofollow">"U.S. sues Arch Coal, 3 other firm"</a> Jeffrey Tomich, STLToday.com, April 13, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-18"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-18" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091112-720656.html" class="external text" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091112-720656.html" rel="nofollow">Arch Coal Leases Great Northern Properties' Land In Montana</a>, Kathy Shwiff, Wall Street Journal, November, 12, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-19"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-19" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EGDN980.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9EGDN980.htm" rel="nofollow">Arch bids $86M for Mont.-owned Otter Creek coal</a> Matthew Brown, Business Week March 7, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-20"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-20" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1824636620100318" class="external text" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1824636620100318" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal boosts Powder River Basin reserves"</a> Reuters, March 18, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-21"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-21" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_f55b329c-8efc-11df-b64a-001cc4c03286.html" class="external text" title="http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_f55b329c-8efc-11df-b64a-001cc4c03286.html" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal says it will be aggressive"</a> Tom Lutley, Billings Gazette, July 13, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-22"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-22" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/montana-defends-otter-creek-coal-sale-in-court.html" class="external text" title="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-09/montana-defends-otter-creek-coal-sale-in-court.html" rel="nofollow">"Montana defends Otter Creek coal sale in court"</a> Bloomberg, December 9, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-23"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-23" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/lawsuits/0478.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/lawsuits/0478.aspx" rel="nofollow">"Montana District Court Rules Lawsuit Against Otter Creek Coal Mine May Proceed -- Mining Implicates Constitutional Right to a Clean and Healthful Environment"</a> Sierra Club Press Release, January 14, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-24"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-24" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12582325" class="external text" title="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12582325" rel="nofollow">"Judge: Lawsuit Against Mont. Coal Lease Can Go On"</a> Matthew Brown, January 10, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-25"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-25" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.investingdaily.com/id/18175/warren-buffett-is-betting-big-on-coal.html" class="external text" title="http://www.investingdaily.com/id/18175/warren-buffett-is-betting-big-on-coal.html" rel="nofollow">"Warren Buffett is Betting Big on Coal"</a> Jim Fink, Investing Daily, January 6, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-26"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-26" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0212-gates.html" class="external text" title="http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0212-gates.html" rel="nofollow">"Bill Gates: ban coal and invest in clean energy technology"</a> Mongabay.com, February 12, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-27"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-27" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Montana-lines-up-with-Arch-Coal-to-defend-mine-2186895.php" class="external text" title="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Montana-lines-up-with-Arch-Coal-to-defend-mine-2186895.php" rel="nofollow">"Montana lines up with Arch Coal to defend mine"</a> Matthew Brown, Associated Press, September 24, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-28"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-28" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210&goButt2.x=12&goButt2.y=8&goButt2=Submit" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=E1210&goButt2.x=12&goButt2.y=8&goButt2=Submit" rel="nofollow">"Coal Mining: Long-Term Contribution Trends"</a> OpenSecrets.org, accessed January 27, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-29"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-29" title="">↑</a> David Payton, <a href="http://www.wvoter-owned.org/news/2006/01_09.html" class="external text" title="http://www.wvoter-owned.org/news/2006/01_09.html" rel="nofollow">"Coal companies are big political donors"</a>, Citizens for Clean Elections, January 9, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-30"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-30" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://projects.publicintegrity.org/climatelobby/Details.aspx?ID=342" class="external text" title="http://projects.publicintegrity.org/climatelobby/Details.aspx?ID=342" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal"</a>, Center for Public Integrity, accessed March 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-31"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-31" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000019258&year=2011" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000019258&year=2011" rel="nofollow">"Annual Lobbying by Arch Coal"</a> OpenSecrets.org, accessed August 1, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-32"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-32" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/eis.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.epa.gov/region3/mtntop/eis.htm" rel="nofollow">EPA Environmental Impact Statement</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-mj-33"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-mj_33-0" title="">↑</a> Andy Kroll,<a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/jpmorgan-mountaintop-removal-mining" class="external text" title="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/jpmorgan-mountaintop-removal-mining" rel="nofollow">"JPMorgan��s War on Nature"</a> Mother Jones, March 30, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-34"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-34" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/science/coalupdate.html" class="external text" title="http://www.pbs.org/now/science/coalupdate.html" rel="nofollow">Now with Bill Moyers, "The Cost of Coal"</a>, PBS, May 30, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-35"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-35" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/science/coal.html" class="external text" title="http://www.pbs.org/now/science/coal.html" rel="nofollow">Now with Bill Moyers, "The Cost of Coal" Update</a>, PBS, August 2, 2002.</li>

<li id="cite_note-36"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-36" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/970811/archive_007620.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/970811/archive_007620.htm" rel="nofollow">"Shear Madness"</a> U.S. News and World Report, August 3, 1997.</li>

<li id="cite_note-37"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-37" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.tlpj.org/briefs/mountpi.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.tlpj.org/briefs/mountpi.htm" rel="nofollow">U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, Charleston Division, Patricia Bragg v. Dana Robertson, Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Preliminary Injunction</a>, February 1999.</li>

<li id="cite_note-38"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-38" title="">↑</a> Francis X. Clines, <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D61F38F933A05753C1A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all" class="external text" title="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D61F38F933A05753C1A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">"Senator Leads Move to Block Ruling on Strip Mines,"</a> New York Times, October 30, 1999.</li>

<li id="cite_note-39"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-39" title="">↑</a> John Raby, <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1AvrjZnz0-UgFmcZcVRZScE-rOQD9BCGN0O0" class="external text" title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h1AvrjZnz0-UgFmcZcVRZScE-rOQD9BCGN0O0" rel="nofollow">"EPA plans to veto surface mining permit in W.Va.,"</a> Associated Press, October 17, 2009.</li>

<li id="cite_note-40"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-40" title="">↑</a> Siobhan Hughes, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126272441988216829.html" class="external text" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126272441988216829.html" rel="nofollow">"EPA Softens Stance on Mountaintop Coal Mining,"</a> Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-41"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-41" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/article-display/0608701222/articles/industrial-waterworld/2010/issue-1/columns/epa-approves_mountaintop.html" class="external text" title="http://www.waterworld.com/index/display/article-display/0608701222/articles/industrial-waterworld/2010/issue-1/columns/epa-approves_mountaintop.html" rel="nofollow">"EPA Approves Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine"</a> Patrick Crow, WaterWorld.com, March 2, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-42"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-42" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704100604575145883546209258.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" class="external text" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704100604575145883546209258.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" rel="nofollow">"EPA Signals It Might Block Mountaintop Coal Permit"</a> Ian Talley, Wall Street Journal, March 26, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-ct-43"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-ct_43-0" title="">↑</a> Ken Ward Jr., <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/01/13/breaking-news-epa-vetoes-spruce-mine-permit/" class="external text" title="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/01/13/breaking-news-epa-vetoes-spruce-mine-permit/" rel="nofollow">"Breaking news: EPA vetoes Spruce Mine permit"</a> Coal Tattoo, Jan. 13, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-kwj-44">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-kwj_44-0" title="">45.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-kwj_44-1" title="">45.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-kwj_44-2" title="">45.2</a> Ken Ward Jr., <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201101171363" class="external text" title="http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201101171363" rel="nofollow">"Spruce Mine could have reduced impacts, report says"</a> Charleston Gazette, Jan. 18, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-45"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-45" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9ECGMT02.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9ECGMT02.htm" rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal buys minority stake in Texas power plant"</a> Business Week, March 12, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-46"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-46" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/arch-coal-to-make-additional-3-million-investment-in-ada-es-2010-03-23?reflink=MW_news_stmp," class="external text" title="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/arch-coal-to-make-additional-3-million-investment-in-ada-es-2010-03-23?reflink=MW_news_stmp," rel="nofollow">"Arch Coal to Make Additional $3 Million Investment in ADA-ES"</a> Market Waste, accessed March 25, 2010.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-js-53"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-js_53-0" title="">↑</a> John Stark, <a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/03/01/1891340/gateway-pacific-terminal-at-cherry.html#ixzz1FPb9Pknd" class="external text" title="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/03/01/1891340/gateway-pacific-terminal-at-cherry.html#ixzz1FPb9Pknd" rel="nofollow">"Gateway Pacific terminal at Cherry Point starts permit process"</a> The Seattle Times, March 1, 2011.</li>

<li id="cite_note-st-54">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-st_54-0" title="">55.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-st_54-1" title="">55.1</a> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014368837_apwacherrypointterminal1stldwritethru.html" class="external text" title="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014368837_apwacherrypointterminal1stldwritethru.html" rel="nofollow">"Bulk cargo terminal planned in Washington state"</a> Seattle Times, March 1, 2011.</li>

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<li id="cite_note-ore-57">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-ore_57-0" title="">58.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal#cite_ref-ore_57-1" title="">58.1</a> <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/06/port_of_st_helens_potential_ca.html" class="external text" title="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/06/port_of_st_helens_potential_ca.html" rel="nofollow">"Port of St. Helens potential candidate for coal export to Asia"</a> Scott Learn, The Oregonian, June 15, 2011.</li>

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WASHINGTON -- A panel of federal judges ruled Thursday that a Kentucky miner who was fired two years ago after alleging unsafe conditions at his mine deserves to keep his job, delivering yet another legal victory to a highly public coal-industry whistleblower.

Charles Scott Howard lost his job at Cumberland River Coal Company, a subsidiary of energy giant Arch Coal, in May 2011. Managers informed him he was being let go because he was no longer fit to work due to an on-the-job injury. But Howard had lodged a litany of safety complaints against the company in the run-up to his layoff. An administrative law judge <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/charles-scott-howard-kentucky-miner_n_1607296.html" target="_hplink">ruled last year</a> that letting Howard go amounted to discrimination under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act.

Cumberland River appealed that decision, arguing that putting Howard back on the job would actually endanger him, due to his injury, and undermine safety law. The panel of appellate judges, however, didn't buy it.

The company, the judges wrote Thursday, "has no viable safety argument in this particular case." The ruling (below) likely marks the final word in Howard's saga, assuring he can continue clocking in at his mine in eastern Kentucky. He'd been working at the mine for 7 months under reinstatement as the appeal pended.

"This means Scott doesn't have to look over his shoulder, worrying he could lose his job at any time," said his attorney, Tony Oppegard, who served as Howard's co-counsel on the appeal, along with Wes Addington, of the Appalachian Citizens' Law Center, and Lynne Dunbar of the U.S. Labor Department. "His safety activism has not diminished one iota since he went back to work. He's been standing up for safety on a regular basis for the last seven months, and he'll continue doing that."

A spokeswoman for Cumberland River parent company Arch declined to comment.

As HuffPost reported in a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/charles-scott-howard-whistleblower-miner_n_960180.html" target="_hplink">2011 profile of Howard</a>, the miner has butted heads with management for years over dangerous conditions in Kentucky mines, often being punished, fired or blacklisted for raising his concerns. Howard filed half a dozen whistleblower complaints against Cumberland River in roughly as many years, and he once aired video of dangerously faulty seals at a company mine at a public hearing on mine safety. Boasting a long, successful record in court, Howard has been reinstated to his job twice by judges.

"It's a struggle just to work and earn a living," said Howard, 53. "I just can't stand to see lives put at risk."

Raising safety issues in a mine has a way of slowing coal production, potentially putting a worker at odds with management. At one point, his activism seemed to bother managers so much that the company entered into an agreement to pay Howard his full salary -- plus overtime -- if he agreed to stay off mine property.

His outspokenness on allegedly unsafe working conditions has come with its own risks, judging from court documents. In July 2010, he suffered a head injury while underground and had to be hospitalized. According to last year's ruling by the administrative law judge, doctors determined that Howard was in fine enough shape to go back to work, but one neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Robert Granacher, suggested Howard not be allowed to work at certain heights.

After Granacher's suggestion, a supervisor "decided that she would further clarify what the height restriction required," and "from that point forward, [Cumberland River] and Arch worked to keep Howard from returning to work," according to the the 2012 decision. Granacher later changed his report to recommend that Howard not be allowed to work at all. The judge called Granacher's actions "questionable."

According to court documents, an Arch manager also told a workers' compensation attorney working on Howard's case that the company was hoping to get a "resignation" from the miner. The same manager said in a deposition that she was told by Arch that Cumberland River "did not want Howard back" at the mine.

Oppegard, Howard's lawyer, said coal companies often worry that one miner's assertiveness on safety issues will spread to others.

"They think a safety activist has some kind of contagious disease, that he'll infect other miners with safety activism," said Oppegard. "They don't want other miners to know about their safety rights. The thing they fear more than anything else is having another Scott Howard at their mine."

Howard said he plans to work at Cumberland River for as long as he can.

"I'll stay there until I retire," Howard said. "It's the last place I'll ever work."

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