[h=2]Trump's Interior Secretary is planning to use West Coast military bases for coal and oil exports to stop states standing in way of new fossil fuel ports[/h]
- Ryan Zinke says he wants to use federal land on the West Coast to get round a ban on new parts effectively imposed by California, Oregon and Washington
- All of them have rejected private-sector efforts to build new coal ports which Zinke claims are vital to 'national security'
- Boosting coal and gas exports would advance the administration's agenda to establish U.S. 'energy dominance' on the world stage
- Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, called the proposal a 'harebrained idea'
- Only base Zinke named is actually in Alaska: former Adak Naval Air Facility in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, which could receive fuel by barge