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Prosecutors accused Medvedchuk of colluding with state officials to block coal purchases from the international market.

Launched in April 1989, the strike drew national support from labor groups and religious leaders, with miners and their allies staging mass sit-ins to block coal trucks.

They have rolled back an Obama-era order to block coal mining on public lands and delayed carrying out a regulation controlling emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from oil and gas wells.

Activists and politicians in the Bay Area are working to block coal from passing through the terminal.

Officials have voiced particular fears over Russia’s threat to block coal deliveries: 57% of Ukraine’s 150 coal mines are under the control of separatists, and only 35 functioning mines are located outside the war zone.