September 30, 2013, 5:00pm Business
PASCO -- Trains hauling coal from Montana and Wyoming would pass through the Tri-Cities on their way to a proposed export terminal at Longview. Read story
September 30, 2013, 5:00pm Business
Representatives of the two companies that want to build a controversial oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver said Monday night they will operate the facility safely and that they approach doing business in a community as neighbors, bringing charitable and other community-support programs in tow. Read story
September 25, 2013, 5:00pm Business
SPOKANE -- Inland Northwest residents turned out in force in Spokane on Wednesday evening to persuade officials that a proposed West Side shipping terminal's potential environmental impacts reach far beyond its site on the lower Columbia River. Read story
September 21, 2013, 5:00pm Business
SEATTLE -- Climate activists gathered on the Seattle waterfront Saturday and vowed to fight any increase in coal and oil exports through ports in Washington and other states. Read story
September 21, 2013, 5:00pm Business
NEW YORK -- The future of coal is getting darker. Read story
September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Nation & World
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's top energy and environmental officials say there is a future for coal, despite a pending regulation aimed at limiting global warming pollution from new power plants that Republicans and the coal industry say will doom the fuel source. Read story
September 17, 2013, 5:00pm Business
Outside the Cowlitz Expo Center in Longview on Tuesday, a sign on a 12-foot-tall inflatable globe declared "Coal is poison" to attendees of Millennium Bulk Terminals' first public hearing on its proposed coal dock west of Longview. Read story
September 16, 2013, 5:00pm Business
LONGVIEW -- Speakers passionate about new jobs or the environment are facing off today in Longview at the first public hearing on a proposed coal export terminal. Read story
September 15, 2013, 5:00pm Business
Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview LLC has proposed building and operating a facility in Longview capable of handling up to 44 million tons of coal annually. The coal would be sent by rail from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, through Vancouver en route to Longview, then shipped to energy-hungry… Read story
September 5, 2013, 5:00pm Editor's Choice
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reducing the area it will consider in its endangered species review for the Morrow Pacific coal export terminal proposed on the Oregon side of the Columbia River. Read story
