June 18, 2018, 5:04pm Nation & World
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday approved the first state permit program for disposal of toxic ash from coal plants, a switch from federal oversight that the coal industry had sought. Read story
January 3, 2018, 3:43pm Business
Developers of a massive coal-export terminal proposed on the Columbia River have sued the state of Washington over the project. Read story
November 2, 2017, 6:29pm Business
After years of studying the $680 million Millennium coal project, Cowlitz County is recommending approval of two shoreline permits as long as the company can meets 36 conditions meant to ease its environmental and social impacts. Read story
October 30, 2017, 4:52pm Business
Attorneys for a large Montana coal mine are due in court this week to press a judge to reverse an order that could prompt dozens of layoffs by blocking the mine’s plans to expand. Read story
October 26, 2017, 11:14am Business
A state agency has rejected a request to use state-owned aquatic lands for a major coal-export terminal along the Columbia River. Read story
October 24, 2017, 5:13pm Business
A company proposing to build a large terminal in Washington state to export coal to Asia is challenging the state's decision to deny it a key permit. Read story
September 26, 2017, 10:38am Business
In a potentially fatal blow to Millennium Bulk Terminal’s proposed Longview coal export dock, the state Department of Ecology has denied a water quality permit for the project, concluding that it would cause unavoidable harm to the environment. Read story
August 9, 2017, 4:35pm Business
The operator of one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the Western U.S. plans to keep running the 2,100-megawatt plant, a spokesman said Wednesday, in an abrupt reversal from its declaration last year that a new operator would be needed by mid-2018. Read story
July 2, 2017, 6:05am Business
The world’s biggest coal users — China, the United States and India — have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year’s record global decline for the heavily polluting fuel and a setback to efforts to rein in climate change emissions. Read story
June 1, 2017, 4:36pm Business
A Cowlitz County judge handed Millennium Bulk Terminals and Northwest Alloys a small early win Wednesday in its challenge to the state’s denial of an aquatic lands lease for the proposed Longview coal dock. Read story