The U.S. Navy on Tuesday became the first branch of the U.S. military — the world’s single-largest user of fossil fuels — to say it will start requiring big vendors to report their output of climate-changing greenhouse gases and work to lower it.
The issue getting the most attention at a Skagit County Planning and Development Services public meeting March 31 on Tesoro Anacortes Refinery’s proposed xylene plant was concern Tesoro would use the upgrades to turn the March Point refinery into a marine shipping terminal for crude oil directly from the Bakken fields of North Dakota.
The Expo Hall at Tacoma’s convention center is filled with just about every kind of electric car you could imagine in a city fleet, as well as pedicabs, ultra-clean diesel tractor-trailers and a Pierce County bus that runs on natural gas.
Global climate change will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and hospitalizations by 2030, a new federal report released Monday predicted…
The Tesoro Anacortes Refinery’s proposed $400 million upgrade project has raised concerns among some in the region.
The sponsor of the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal for coal shipments to Asia is suspending work on an environmental review while it awaits a federal ruling on whether the exporting would interfere with Lummi Nation fishing rights.
Anacortes went from 10th place to being tied for seventh in the Georgetown University Energy Prize competition during the most recent tally.
While the air quality across Whatcom County has improved in the last couple days, the Northwest Clean Air Agency is asking people to make sure any burning they do is as clean as possible.
The stagnant air, combined with burning and other factors, deteriorated air quality in the Columbia Valley, where it reached unhealthy levels at times Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 30 and 31.
