Yesterday Cowlitz County commissioners voted to allow a permit for a coal port in Longview on the banks of the Columbia River. The controversial decision came just five days after the Port of Tacoma went in the opposite direction, abandoning plans to build a coal port of its own. The choices made by officials in Tacoma and Cowlitz representhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/science/earth/22fossil.html