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. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Northwest ports pledge to stop air pollution (29 years from now) The Northwest’s biggest ports promise to stop polluting the air — 29 years from now. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Cargo ship spills 40 shipping containers off Washington’s Olympic Peninsula A cargo ship heading from South Korea to Canada hit rough seas and spilled about 40 shipping containers off the Olympic Peninsula Friday morning. John Ryan
Ship that spilled 40 containers off Olympic Peninsula catches fire. Spills 2 more “You have been advised to evacuate the entire vessel,” a coast guard official radioed the captain. “All crew members and captain included. Over.” “Negative, sir,” the captain replied from the burning ship. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Big shippers promise zero carbon by 2040. Too late, say climate activists Major shippers including Amazon and Ikea say they will stop putting their stuff on ships that burn fossil fuels in the next 20 years. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Ship that spilled 100+ containers could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters The ship that spilled more than 100 shipping containers off the Washington coast was in a holding pattern on the open ocean when it could have ridden out the storm in sheltered waters. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
Battered ship finds a port. 105 of its cargo containers presumed sunk The ship that spilled more than a hundred cargo containers off the Washington coast, then caught fire has made it safely into port. The same cannot be said for much of the Zim Kingston’s cargo. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
Seattle-bound cargo ship spills 90 shipping containers Nine of the spilled containers are carrying flammable lithium-ion batteries and are considered dangerous cargo. John Ryan Play AudioListen 1 min
New highways headed to Seattle area despite drive to fight climate change Even as Washington state tries to clamp down on climate-harming pollution, it’s building new highways in its two biggest counties. John Ryan Play AudioListen 5 mins
Behemoth moth lands in Bellevue, alarming agriculture officials A homeowner in Bellevue spotted a giant orange moth, as big as a paper plate but with wing tips resembling a pair of cobras, hanging off the side of his garage. John Ryan Play AudioListen 2 mins
