A 34-page U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision has stopped movement on a proposed coal export terminal at Cherry Point in northwestern Washington.
The $700-million project, which would have created three ship berths and a new vessel-approach lane, with a wharf and trestle stretching over 122 acres of water in one of the West Coast’s deepest natural ports, ran into opposition from environmental groups across western Washington and the Lummi Nation tribe.