Energy

Week In Review

This week: reopening, interrupted and solar farms backlash

Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Seattle Channel producer and host Brian Callanan, independent journalist Jane C. Hu and KUOW newscaster and reporter Paige Browning.

Even in the bright of day, a solar-powered 'nightmare'

You can see Mount Adams rising from the horizon on a grassy hilltop on Amy Hanson’s land. Farms reach out in most directions. Homes dot the landscape.

Cap-and-trade law tackles big polluters, fractures political alliances

A sweeping climate proposal from Gov. Jay Inslee has both fractured existing alliances and sparked new ones — among activists and oil refineries alike — on its way to becoming Washington state law.

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Interest in hydrogen fuel growing in the Pacific Northwest — and tax dollars following

More folks from Pacific Northwest government and industry are jumping on the hydrogen bandwagon to test if the alternative fuel could be a viable and green replacement for diesel and gasoline in some situations. The potential converts include more than half a dozen transit agencies from Everett to Eugene, state legislators and Boeing's drone subsidiary in the Columbia River Gorge.

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Environmental justice moves to mainstream as governments embrace cause

Washington state’s oil refineries all sit near, or on, Indian reservations. Advocates say that fits a national pattern of pollution disproportionately hitting people of color.

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Speed, small talk led to oil-tanker crash, feds find

A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas was coming in too fast and at too steep an angle when it crashed into a wharf at Cherry Point, north of Bellingham, Washington, the National Transportation Safety Board has found. It didn’t help that the ship’s captain and a harbor pilot engaged in two minutes of “non-pertinent conversation” on the bridge as the big ship closed in on the dock.