October 13, 2014, 5:00pm Business
WASHOUGAL -- If there's one certainty about where Washougal councilors stand on a proposed oil terminal in Vancouver, it's that everyone's uneasy about increasing oil train traffic through the city. Read story
October 12, 2014, 5:00pm Clark County News
The Washougal City Council is preparing to take up a resolution opposing a plan to build the largest oil-by-rail terminal in the Northwest at the Port of Vancouver. Read story
September 26, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Most Clark County residents don't pay close attention to the North Dakota Industrial Commission. But the three-member regulatory body has the authority to influence something increasingly familiar to Southwest Washington and the Northwest: oil trains. Read story
September 17, 2014, 5:00pm Business
State investment boards in Washington and Oregon are "bankrolling" oil, coal and gas infrastructure, a new analysis asserts, despite public calls by those states' governors to shift to renewables to fight global climate change. Read story
September 15, 2014, 5:00pm Nation & World
WASHINGTON -- The drilling procedure called fracking didn't cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the contamination on problems in pipes and seals in natural gas wells. Read story
September 14, 2014, 5:00pm Business
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Coal companies have finalized a deal that consolidates ownership of a Montana mine and gives a Wyoming company an option to export coal through Washington state. Read story
September 11, 2014, 5:00pm Clark County News
The Vancouver City Council on Thursday unanimously passed an emergency six-month moratorium on new or expanded facilities that would accept crude oil. Read story
September 3, 2014, 5:00pm Business
BILLINGS, Mont. -- Coal companies announced an agreement Thursday to consolidate ownership of a Montana mine in a deal aimed at boosting exports of the fuel to Asia through ports on the U.S. West Coast. Read story
September 1, 2014, 5:00pm Business
SEATTLE -- Five people were arrested Tuesday after tying themselves to poles erected over the railroad tracks at a BNSF Railway yard in Everett that about a dozen demonstrators blocked to protest train shipments of oil and coal and proposed export terminals in the Northwest. Read story
August 24, 2014, 5:00pm Business
BELLINGHAM -- A coal port just across the Canadian border received a major approval Thursday and expects to open in fall 2015. Read story