April 16, 2015, 5:00pm Latest News
WASHINGTON -- Federal transportation officials say they're taking a series of steps to improve the safety of trains hauling crude oil and other flammable liquids, including an emergency order limiting train speeds to no more than 40 mph in "high impact" urban areas. Read story
April 16, 2015, 5:00pm Clark County News
The state Department of Ecology, currently updating a contingency plan for responding to an oil spill on the Middle Columbia River, is accepting comments from the public on a recently released draft. Read story
April 8, 2015, 5:00pm Business
SPOKANE -- A Quincy company that shipped fresh fruit to the Midwest is suing BNSF Railway Co., saying the railroad canceled the company's 72-hour service to Chicago to concentrate on higher profit oil and coal shipments. Read story
April 8, 2015, 5:00pm Clark County News
Now is the time to act to reduce the continued risk of crude oil moving through the region by rail, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell said during a visit to Vancouver on Wednesday. Read story
March 30, 2015, 12:00am Business
OLYMPIA -- Two competing bills that toughen rules for oil transportation face key votes this week, as state lawmakers try to reconcile differences. Read story
March 29, 2015, 12:00am Business
NEW YORK -- OPEC and lower global oil prices delivered a one-two punch to the drillers in North Dakota and Texas who brought the U.S. one of the biggest booms in the history of the global oil industry. Read story
March 27, 2015, 12:00am Business
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study submitted Friday. Read story
March 27, 2015, 12:00am Nation & World
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. should immediately begin a push to exploit its enormous trove of oil in the Arctic waters off of Alaska, or risk a renewed reliance on imported oil in the future, an Energy Department advisory council says in a study to be released today. Read story
March 26, 2015, 12:00am Business
Opponents of a plan to build the nation's largest rail-to-marine oil transfer terminal at the Port of Vancouver are inviting the public to a forum aimed at detailing what they see as the project's threats to public safety and spelling out how people can help defeat it. Read story
March 25, 2015, 12:00am Editor's Choice
SEATTLE -- Senate Democrats have proposed federal legislation to strengthen safety standards for trains that carry volatile shipments of crude oil. Read story
