Energy

Crime

Officials demand answers after apparent sabotage of oil train

Some legislators are calling for action in the wake of a federal report on the apparent sabotage of an oil train north of Bellingham last year.

Environment

Federal investigation points to ‘possible’ sabotage of oil train in Custer crash

Federal investigators say someone apparently tampered with the brakes and couplers on an oil train before it derailed north of Bellingham.

Environment

More nuclear energy could be coming to Central Washington, as Grant County explores small-scale

Washington’s Grant County is exploring nuclear generation in an effort to generate more carbon-free electricity. The county’s Public Utility District recently signed a deal with Oregon-based NuScale Power to figure out if a partnership might work.

Politics

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.

Environment

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.

Environment

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.

Environment

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.

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.