A picked judge in Seattle has allowed a lawsuit over coal trains to proceed against BNSF Railway.
Seven standard collections sued BNSF the past summer, avowing it harm the law by allowing railcars to spill coal and distinctive harmful substances into channels.
U.s. Reach Court Judge John Coughenour on Wednesday denied BNSF’s progression to discharge. The acquaintanceship had battle the social events didn’t give sufficient notice and didn’t have correct staying to sue.
Courses of action starting now bring coal from the Rockies through Spokane, Seattle and along the Columbia River Gorge to an area terminal in British Columbia. More are mundane if coal-pass on terminals are assembled at Cherry Point in Whatcom County and in Longview.
A basically vague lawsuit against BNSF is pending in picked court in Yakima. In January, a picked judge nearly denied the railroad connection’s change to reject that suit.