NO COAL! is a group of concerned citizens who believe that our rights-based ordinance, championed by the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), represents our community’s best chance to stop coal trafficking.  NO COAL!  is anchored to the premise that we want to STOP coal trafficking and its harmful impacts on our community and the environment – not regulate it.  We’re not willing to rely upon the regulatory approach to permitting which is designed to mitigate – not prevent harm.  We have little hope that the regulations in place to mitigate potential environmental and economic harms to our community will stand up to the billions of dollars of corporate investment in profiting from the extraction and exportation of coal.

“….we must begin to do our work differently – in a way that focuses work on each single issue into a spotlight that illuminates how corporations and state officials have turned our governments on their head. That begins to build a peoples’ movement not focused on regulating our demise, but on liberating the self-governance of our communities.”
– Thomas Linzey, CELDF

Steering Committee