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December 5, 2012

Plan for coal train route through southern Minn. derailed

The plan would have boosted railroad’s daily train traffic through Mankato from two or three to as many as 34 mile-long trains — half of them coal-filled trains feeding power plants to the east, half of them westbound empty trains returning to the Powder River Basin.

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Photo by Michael Hicks via Flickr taken in Rochester, Minn.
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October 1, 2012

N.D. can press on with its coal-generation lawsuit

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North Dakota sunset by Ross Perkins

“A federal judge accepted some arguments by North Dakota and some by Minnesota in a lawsuit over the future of new coal power plants and cross-border electricity sales.

via Star Tribune.