June 16, 2016, 4:53pm Business
A state judge expressed alarm at the estimated 200 million gallons of contaminated water seeping annually from leaky ash-storage ponds at a Montana power plant serving customers across the Pacific Northwest — a problem that’s persisted for years after the company and state officials said they were addressing it. Read story
May 27, 2016, 12:04pm Business
Hundreds of people packed into a convention center in Spokane to give their opinion on a proposed coal export terminal that would bring more than a dozen additional trains through the city every day. Read story
May 24, 2016, 4:21pm Business
Bearing signs, planting flags and dressed in red or blue, thousands of people descended on the Cowlitz Expo Center on Tuesday to testify at the first public hearing on the draft environmental study of Longview’s proposed coal export dock. Read story
May 24, 2016, 10:28am Business
A man has been arrested in the death of a former coal company executive found shot at a West Virginia cemetery where his wife is buried, a sheriff said Tuesday. Read story
May 23, 2016, 5:46pm Business
The city of Vancouver wants state regulators to take a close look at what up to 16 mile-and-a-half-long coal trains a day could mean for the community. Read story
May 18, 2016, 10:26am Nation & World
All coal-ash pits in North Carolina maintained by Duke Energy power plants pose enough of an environmental risk that they should be excavated and moved by 2024, state environmental regulators said Wednesday. Read story
May 9, 2016, 12:23pm Business
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday denied a permit to a $700 million project to build the nation's largest coal-export terminal in northwest Washington state. Read story
April 29, 2016, 12:50pm Business
The Millennium Bulk Terminals coal-export proposal in Longview would bring up to eight coal-carryng trains of 125 cars each through Vancouver every day, according to new information included in a state environmental review released Friday. Read story
April 29, 2016, 6:31am Business
State and local regulators say a coal-export terminal proposed along the Columbia River in southwest Washington could have some unavoidable significant impacts on greenhouse gases emissions, vessel traffic and rail safety. Read story
April 24, 2016, 5:28pm Business
For centuries, Lummi tribal fishermen have harvested, dug up clams and fished for salmon in the tidelands and waters of northwest Washington state. Read story
