June 22, 2013, 5:00pm Business
A distant U.S. oil boom is creating an opportunity for the Port of Vancouver to fill its expanding rail tracks, pump up revenues and create jobs. Read story
June 19, 2013, 5:00pm Business
A new survey finds support for coal export terminals has dropped over the past year among Northwest residents. It also finds support for a region-wide approach to measuring the environmental impact of exporting coal. Read story
June 18, 2013, 5:00pm Business
OLYMPIA -- Building new coal terminals near Bellingham and Longview will have major economic benefits for the entire state, a new study conducted for the Washington Farm Bureau suggests. Read story
June 17, 2013, 5:00pm Business
SEATTLE -- An official with the Army Corps of Engineers told a Congressional committee Tuesday that the agency doesn't plan a broad environmental study on exporting coal from the Western United States. Read story
June 10, 2013, 5:00pm Business
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Undervalued coal sales from public lands have cost the U.S. an estimated $62 million in potential lost revenues in recent years, according to a Tuesday report from federal investigators, who recommended broad changes to the government's coal-leasing program to stem further losses. Read story
May 31, 2013, 5:00pm Business
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An Australian energy company has cleared a key hurdle for a terminal on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that would ship coal from the Great Plains to Asia. Read story
May 30, 2013, 5:00pm Northwest
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An Australian energy company has cleared a key hurdle for a terminal on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that would ship coal from the Great Plains to Asia. Read story
April 6, 2013, 5:00pm Business
WASHINGTON -- Growing environmental objections to exporting coal from Washington state and Oregon have begun to endanger the coal industry's hope to restore its flagging fortunes by shipping much more of the embattled fossil fuel to China and India. Read story
April 1, 2013, 5:00pm Business
SEATTLE -- Several conservation groups on Tuesday announced plans to sue Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and several top U.S. coal producers, claiming they spill coal into Washington state waterways in violation of federal law. Read story
March 10, 2013, 5:00pm Business
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- Now that two of its partners have dropped out, a California marine terminal management company has until the end of the month to decide if it still wants to try to develop at the Port of Coos Bay, Ore., so coal mined in Montana and Wyoming… Read story
