Charlottesville, Virginia—The Trump administration did not offer comment to the US Supreme Court about a bid by certain coalproducing states to reject the legitimacy of Washington state standing in the way of a coal export terminal, leaving an opportunity for a Biden administration-controlled US Justice Department to give an opinion instead. After the state of Washington denied a water quality permit for the terminal proposed by Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, Wyoming and Montana filed a petition to the US Supreme Court aimed at rejecting Washington’s authority to block the project, citing the Dormant Commerce Clause and the Foreign Commerce Clause under the US Constitution. Millennium is a subsidiary of Lighthouse Resources, which was unable to find a buyer for the port through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
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