Environmentalists say the Moore administration has missed an opportunity to make progress toward reducing the runoff from roads and parking lots that floods communities and pollutes waterways.

The railroad had complained about the cost of an earlier version of the permit, which called for fully enclosing the coal pile to protect the community from blowing dust

Johns Hopkins researchers find particulate matter and black carbon levels were highest when there was bulldozer activity and wind blowing from the coal transfer station towards homes.