April 19, 2014, 5:00pm Business
PORTLAND (AP) -- The volume of oil hauled on railroads in Oregon increased last year to more than 11 million barrels -- a dramatic increase from about 3 million barrels in 2012, reports to the state show. Read story
April 18, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The Washington State Auditor's Office says it won't investigate a complaint filed by a Vancouver resident about the Port of Vancouver's closed-door discussion of a lease to build the Northwest's largest oil transfer terminal. Read story
April 16, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Gov. Jay Inslee, who will have the ultimate say over the construction of what would be the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail transfer terminal in Vancouver, hasn't taken a stand on the project. But members of the state's Congressional delegation are weighing in. Read story
April 14, 2014, 5:00pm Business
BNSF Railway officials emphasized a safety-first mentality, billions of dollars' worth of capital investments and a pledge to spend millions training first responders in the event of an oil spill during a workshop Monday with the Vancouver City Council. Read story
April 12, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Opponents of a proposal to build the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail transfer terminal at the Port of Vancouver have packed public hearings and repeatedly pounded a message to port commissioners: cancel the lease with Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies. Read story
April 9, 2014, 5:00pm Latest News
SEATTLE -- U.S. Development Group is seeking permits to build an oil terminal on the Washington coast that could handle about 45,000 barrels of crude oil a day. Read story
April 9, 2014, 5:00pm Latest News
WASHINGTON -- Emergency response officials told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday that big cities and small towns alike are unprepared for a disaster on the scale of an oil train derailment and fire last year in Quebec that destroyed part of a town and killed 47 people. Read story
April 8, 2014, 5:00pm Business
WASHINGTON -- Responding to a series of fiery train derailments, federal regulators said Wednesday they will propose that trains transporting crude oil have at least two-man crews and requirements aimed at preventing parked train cars from coming loose and causing an accident like one in July that killed 47 people. Read story
April 3, 2014, 5:00pm Clark County News
The proposed Tesoro-Savage terminal, which would be the largest oil-by-rail facility in the Northwest, has overshadowed a smaller but significant crude oil proposal for Vancouver. Read story
April 1, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The Washington state board reviewing what would be the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal will undertake a sweeping analysis of the facility's environmental effects -- from the extraction of the oil to its ultimate consumption. Read story
