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Stevie Johnson holds up a pair of signs during a protest outside City Hall before a scheduled vote, Monday, June 27, 2016, to decide whether to ban rail shipments of coal over concerns it would pose a public health or safety hazard in Oakland, Calif. A yes vote Monday by the Oakland City Council could scuttle the plan to build a marine terminal that would serve as a gateway for Utah coal heading to Asia.

Oakland City Council bans coal shipments

Stevie Johnson holds up a pair of signs during a protest outside City Hall before a scheduled vote, Monday, June 27, 2016, to decide whether to ban rail shipments of coal over concerns it would pose a public health or safety hazard in Oakland, Calif. A yes vote Monday by the Oakland City Council could scuttle the plan to build a marine terminal that would serve as a gateway for Utah coal heading to Asia.

June 27, 2016, 11:27pm Business

Arguing health risks, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted to ban coal shipments Monday night, killing a plan to transport Utah coal to Asia through a proposed marine terminal. Backers maintained the proposal would bring badly needed jobs to an impoverished area. Read story

Oil terminal opponents in the audience waive their hands Monday in support of an opening statement critical of the proposed Vancouver Energy oil terminal during an Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council hearing Clark College at Columbia Tech Center.

Opening statements, expert testimony on oil terminal begins

Oil terminal opponents in the audience waive their hands Monday in support of an opening statement critical of the proposed Vancouver Energy oil terminal during an Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council hearing Clark College at Columbia Tech Center.

June 27, 2016, 6:45pm Business

Opening statements, expert testimony on oil terminal begins Read story

About 100 people opposed to oil trains gathered this morning prior to the opening of Vancouver Energy adjudication hearings at Clark College's east Vancouver building.

Oil terminal hearings open today in Vancouver

About 100 people opposed to oil trains gathered this morning prior to the opening of Vancouver Energy adjudication hearings at Clark College's east Vancouver building.

June 27, 2016, 8:36am Clark County Business

Five weeks of judicial-style hearings over plans to build an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver open this morning, but not before a protest by opponents. Read story

The state Energy Facility Site Evaluation will be judge and jury during adjudication hearings that start Monday. It is the latest step, and nearly the last, toward a recommendation for the governor on the approval or denial of an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Above, the evaluation council listens to testimony on the project&#039;s environmental review in January.

EFSEC hearings to begin Monday to review oil terminal

The state Energy Facility Site Evaluation will be judge and jury during adjudication hearings that start Monday. It is the latest step, and nearly the last, toward a recommendation for the governor on the approval or denial of an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Above, the evaluation council listens to testimony on the project&#039;s environmental review in January.

June 26, 2016, 6:06am Business

It’s shaping up to be the trial of the century. Read story

Foes of oil terminal project greatly outnumber friends

June 26, 2016, 6:04am Business

A week before adjudication on a proposal to build the nation’s largest oil terminal begins, 18 organizations, from government agencies to tribes and environmental groups to the terminal’s developer, filed briefs with the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council defining their arguments. Read story

The Port of Vancouver's 218-acre Terminal 5 was the proposed site for the nation's largest oil-by-rail terminal.

Opponents bring terminal lease before state Supreme Court

The Port of Vancouver's 218-acre Terminal 5 was the proposed site for the nation's largest oil-by-rail terminal.

June 24, 2016, 5:03pm Business

While the proposal for the nation’s largest oil terminal drags on through the state permitting process, opponents of the Port of Vancouver project brought the terminal’s lease before the state Supreme Court on Thursday. Read story

This aerial view provided by the Washington State Department of Ecology shows scattered and burned oil tank cars June 4 after a train derailed and burned near Mosier, Ore. Union Pacific Railroad said it had recently inspected the section of track near Mosier, about 70 miles east of Portland, and that it had been inspected at least six times since March 21.

Feds blame Union Pacific for fiery Gorge oil train derailment

This aerial view provided by the Washington State Department of Ecology shows scattered and burned oil tank cars June 4 after a train derailed and burned near Mosier, Ore. Union Pacific Railroad said it had recently inspected the section of track near Mosier, about 70 miles east of Portland, and that it had been inspected at least six times since March 21.

June 23, 2016, 10:15am Latest News

Federal investigators on Thursday blamed Union Pacific Railroad for a fiery oil train derailment along the Oregon-Washington border, saying the company failed to properly maintain its track. Read story

California pipeline spill revised down to 29,400 gallons

June 23, 2016, 9:42am Business

Southern California authorities have revised the estimated size of a crude oil pipeline spill down to 29,400 gallons. Read story

An oil train heads west through downtown Vancouver, near the Columbia Street overpass, in June 2014.

State agency calls for Vancouver oil terminal denial

An oil train heads west through downtown Vancouver, near the Columbia Street overpass, in June 2014.

June 22, 2016, 2:02pm Business

The state Department of Natural Resources is asking for the nation's largest oil-by-rail terminal, proposed for the Port of Vancouver, to be denied state approval. Read story

Crumpled oil tankers lying beside the railroad tracks after a fiery train derailment on June 3 that prompted evacuations from the tiny Columbia River Gorge town about 70 miles east of Portland in Mosier, Ore. Union Pacific said Wednesday that it will resume running oil trains through the Gorge.

Union Pacific resuming oil trains in Columbia River Gorge

Crumpled oil tankers lying beside the railroad tracks after a fiery train derailment on June 3 that prompted evacuations from the tiny Columbia River Gorge town about 70 miles east of Portland in Mosier, Ore. Union Pacific said Wednesday that it will resume running oil trains through the Gorge.

June 22, 2016, 2:00pm Latest News

Union Pacific plans to resume transporting oil by train through the Oregon side of the scenic Columbia River Gorge at some point this week. Read story